ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING

ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING

Any writing that goes outside the
bounds of normal professional,
journalistic, academic, or technical
forms of literature
a form of artistic expression, draws on
the imagination to convey meaning
through the use of imagery, narrative,
and drama.
Creative Writing
Creative Writing
CHARACTER

Elements of Creative Writing
Elements of Creative Writing
POINT OF VIEW

PLOT
DIALOGUE
SETTING
STYLE
THEME AND MOTIF
A person in a narrative
works of arts.

Character
Character
A character who stands as
a representative of a
particular class or group
of people.



TYPES OF CHARACTER
Round characters- fleshed out
like they are real people. The
reader is given many realistic
details about this type of
character
Flat characters- less complicated
and stereotyped or caricatured

Dynamic characters- the
ones who change over the
course of the story
Static characters- remain
the same throughout


CREATION OF CHARACTER
Comes into the authors head
and lives there.
Magical Character
Magical Character

My Love From The Stars
Created by taking an emblematic quality
or character trait from a real person,
plugging that trait into a fictional
situation, and then the author uses
imagination to transform the character
into a unique construct.
Borrowed Character
Borrowed Character

Created from the ground up,
often starting from expediency
as a two- dimensional creation
which the author then tries to
get to know better, sometimes
by adding trouble and conflict.
Made-up Character
Made-up Character
The narrator's position in
relation to the story being told.
Determines the narrator of a story
and how much the reader knows.

Point of View
Point of View
Is a story told in the narrating
characters own voice. It uses I
throughout, and the reader doesnt
know any more than the character
does.

Example:
I was minding my own business
when Mom burst in. Whats with
you? I grumbled.

Stories told in second person
are told as if telling someone
else what they are doing.

Example:
You walk into the cave and
hear a low rumble. What is
it? you wonder.

Is the familiar he said / she said
story.

Example:
He gripped the dollar bill
tightly. You cant have it, he
told her.

A limited POV keeps the
narration to what that character
can see or know. First person is
obviously limited, but many third
person stories are as well.
Everything is seen through the
narrators eyes, and the reader can
only tell what other characters are
thinking or feeling by their body
language or what they say

An omniscient POV lets the
author dip into the heads of various
characters. When done well, it can
be very effective, letting more
characters thoughts, feelings, and
background be shown. The
disadvantage is that of a constant
reminder of a constructed story,
and so adds some distance between
the reader and the characters

A story with multiple points of
view is not the same as omniscient.
Multiple viewpoints let the reader
into different characters heads by
making complete narrative
switches, usually in different
sections or chapters. Within those
sections, however, the narrator is
held to a single, usually limited,
viewpoint

Subjective can include thoughts
and internal reactions, such as
She ordered her favorite soup,
remembering the weekend John
had convinced her to try it.
Objective keeps a cameras view,
showing the action but not the
thoughts. She ordered asparagus
soup. John smiled. Do you
remember? he asked



The events that makes up a
story.

Point of View
Point of View


Introduces all of the main characters in the
story.

Exposition
Exposition
The events in the story become complicated
and the conflict in the story is revealed


Rising Action
Rising Action
The highest point of interest or the
greatest tension.

Climax
Climax


Actions of character resolving the problem

Falling Actions
Falling Actions
The resolution; the storys mystery
is solved.

Denoument
Denoument


Disagreement between two or more
people

Conflict
Conflict
A critical component for
assisting the story, as in man vs.
nature or man vs. society stories.
In some stories the settings
becomes a character it self.

Settings
Settings
Verbal exchange between two or
more characters.
Dialogue
Dialogue
Ex. This breakfast is making me
sick, George said.

George said is the identifier

Other examples:
Hello, he croaked nervously, my names
Horace.
Whats yours? he asked with as much
aplomb as he could muster.
Said- bookisms
substitute of the word said
Ex. What do you mean? he smiled.
The word smiled is the said- bookism

In fiction, style is the codified
gesture, in which the author tells
the story. Along with plot,
character, theme, and setting, style
is considered one of the
fundamental components of fiction.

Style
Style

COMPONENTS OF STYLE
Fiction is a form of narrative, one of
the four rhetorical modes of
discourse. Fiction-writing also has
distinct forms of expressions, or
modes, each with its own purpose
and conventions.

The teller of the story, the orator,
doing the mouthwork, or its in-
print equivalent. It maybe either
obtrusive or unobtrusive,
depending on the authors intended
relationship between himself, the
narrator, the point of view
character, and the reader.

Is from whose consciousness the
readers hears, sees, and feels the
story.

Is a work of fiction in which the
symbols, characters, and events
come to present, in somewhat
point-by-point fashion, a different
metaphysical, political or social
situation.

Refers to any object or person which
represents something else.

Refers to the attitude that the story
creates toward the subject matter.
tone is sometimes referred to as
the mood that the author
establishes within the story.

Is used in fiction to refer to
descriptive language that evokes
sensory experiences. imagery
means to use figurative language to
represent objects, actions and ideas
in such a way that it appeals to our
physical senses

Is everything in written language
other than the actual letters or
numbers, including punctuation
marks, inter-word spaces, and
indentions

Diction, in its original, primary
meaning, refers to the writers or
the speakers distinctive
vocabulary choice and style of
expression. Literary diction
analysis reveals how a passage
establishes tone and
characterization.

In linguistics, grammar refers to
the logical and structural rules that
govern the composition of
sentence or phrases, and words in
any given natural language

Is the ability to form mental
images, sensation and
concepts, in a moment when
they are not perceived through
sight, hearing or other senses.

The grammatical and lexical
relationship within a text or
sentence. cohesion can be defined
as the links that hold a text
together and give it meaning.

The readers temporary
acceptance of story elements
as believable, regardless of how
implausible they may seem in
real life.

In grammar, the voice also called
diathesis of the verb describes the
relationship between the action
that the verb expresses and
participants identified by its
arguments.


An idea or point that is
central to a story which can
often be summed in a single
word (e.g. love, death,
betrayal).

Theme
Theme
1. Thematic concept- what
the readers think the work
is about
2. Thematic statement- what
the work says about the
subject

1.Leitwortstil- repetition of a
wording in a narrative to make sure
it catches the readers
2.Thematic patterning- insertion of a
recurring motif in a narrative.
Minor tales ultimately reinforce the
theme of the major narrative

In narrative, motif is a recurring
element that has symbolic
significance in a story. through its
repeatition, a motif can help
produce other narrative aspects
such as theme or mood.

Motif
Motif