CREATIVE WRITING

“Writers are not born. They are made.”

“Writing, like all other skills becomes improve only through practice & painstaking efforts.”

Benefits of Writing
 Writing fulfills your basic need to associate with other people. The more you write, the more
you will be able to establish a connection with them. Also, the better you will understand them.
 Writing helps you become better thinkers & learners. When you write, you share ideas &
feelings with others. These ideas & feelings are deep within you & you unconsciously think
about them when you write.
 Writing develops your performance in school. Since all subjects deal with submission of written
reports, your writing will certainly improve especially in analyzing concepts & recalling
information.

Lesson 1 CREATIVE and ACADEMIC WRITING

Academic Writing
• Expository & Persuasive Writing
• Descriptive & Narrative Writing
• Writing Different Kinds of Essays
• Writing Book Reports
• Writing Business Letters, Resumes, & Application Letters
• Technical Writing
• Writing Literary Analysis
• Writing Research Paper

Creative Writing
1. Poetry
• Long, epical poems
• Short, lyrical poems
• Free verse poems
2. Fiction
• Novels (Longest)
• Novelettes
• Short Stories (Shortest)
3. Creative Nonfiction
• Essays
• Literary reportage
• Letters, Diaries, Journals
• Biographies & Autobiographies
• Travelogue
• Blogs
• Memoirs
• Articles or Reviews
Academic & Creative Writing
Basic Principles: clarity, conciseness, coherence, & readability
Differ in: strategies employed & the development of tone & style

Lesson 2 IMAGING and THE USE OF IMAGERY

Imagery
 This is the usage of a language that cause the people (reader) to imagine pictures in their mind.
 In creative writing, you will be making a lot of descriptions. These descriptive details are
necessary to make your writing clear because they help generate a specific mood or emotion
about people, places & circumstances. They are called image & sensory impressions or symbols.
 The use of imagery appeals to how you see, hear, smell, taste, touch & feel the things that you
are writing about. If you write from memory, these images can also help readers to imagine or
relate to some of your specific experiences.

Forms of Imagery
1. Visual - This is a picture in words; something that is concrete & can be seen.
Ex. The darkness of the room makes me feel a little comfortable.
2. Auditory - This is something you can hear through your mind’s ears.
Ex. Her loud mumbling somehow annoyed me.
3. Olfactory - This is something that you can smell through your mind’s nose.
Ex. The strong aroma of the freshly baked cake is so awakening.
4. Gustatory - This is something you can taste through your minds tongue.
Ex. The taste of the cherry made me shiver.
5. Tactile - This is something you can touch through your mind’s skin.
Ex. Her body feels like a couch as I lay on her.
6. Thermal - This is something that depicts temperature.
Ex. The Christmas breeze slapped me so intensely.
7. Erotic - This is something that suggests sensation & feeling.
Ex. As our eyes meet, I feel like an ice cream melting.

Verbal Analogy
 Synonym
Big: huge as small: tiny  Title to Genre
 Antonym Titanic: Movie as My Hearth Will
Big: small as huge: tiny Go On: Song
 Part to Whole  Genre to Title
keyboard: Laptop as keypad: TV Series: Probinsyano as News
cellphones Program: TV Patrol
 Whole to Part
Philippines: Capiz as US: Arizona
Varied Ways of Writing Sentences
1. Subject/Verb Format – the subject is followed by a verb
Ex. HUMSS A students answered the exam confidently.
Subject: HUMSS A student Verb: Answered
2. Prepositional Phrase – Preposition + Phrase + Comma (,); It emphasizes the position/direction of
the subject
Ex. In front of the teacher, HUMSS A took the exam silently.
3. Infinitive Phrase – To + Verb + Phrase + Comma (,)
Ex. To have his dream achieved, Gilbert is studying really hard.
4. Participial Phrase – Participle (Verb) + Phrase + Comma (,); it emphasizes the condition, action, or
situation of the subject.
Ex. Studying with his utmost capacity, Jethro is expected to pass the exam.
5. Adverb Clause – Adverb (Usu. Adverb of time) + Clause + (,)
Ex. During the exam, Bless is so nervous.
6. Appositive Phrase – it describes or emphasizes a noun in a sentence. It acts as an Adjective.
Ex. Foul-mouthed and brave person, Pres. Duterte was easily feared by the world.
7. One-word Transition – ISA LANG KA WORD WHICH ACTS AS “TRANSITION” FOLLOWED BY A
COMMA. MAY MAGSALA PA GUID DI, …….. 
Ex. However, Esmaelita disagreed with what ML suggested.
8. Transitional Phrase - MORE THAN ONE WORD NGA NAGA ACT AS TRANSITION.
Ex. In general, the exam was quite easy.
9. Inverted Order – NAUNA ANG VERB KESA SA SUBJECT. NO COMMA.
Ex. Within the room of emptiness appeared a strange animal-like creature.
Kung baliskarun sa Subject Verb format: A strange animal-like creature appeared within the room
of emptiness.
10. Active Voice – The subject is the doer of the action.
Ex. Althea created a wonderfully structured poem.
Subject: Althea
Action (Verb): created
What: a wonderfully structured poem
11. Passive Voice – The subject is the receiver of the action. (MAY “BY”)
Ex. The wonderfully structured poem was created by Althea.
Subject: Wonderfully structured poem
Action (Verb): created
Who: Althea

POETRY (BASED ON THE VIDEO)

 Poetry – Came from the Greek word Poiesis which means “to make or to create”
 The shortest poetry “ME WE”, was uttered by Muhammad Ali during a speech at graduation
ceremony of the Harvard University (1975).
 Poetry does not usually follow strict grammar not like Prose.
 Following have been emphasized as the best description of Poetry. It has:
1. Rhythm
2. Sound
3. Experience
4. Imaginative
5. Emotions
Characteristics of a Poem
11. Languages Musical Quality (Rhyme, Rhythm, and Meter)
12. Uses condensed language
13. Features Intense Feelings

Descriptive Writing – this type of writing paints words in poetry that communicates an overriding
impression employing a language that appeals to the reader’s imagination, emotion and senses. More
on strong and very specific adjectives.
Narrative Writing – It is a writing mainly in chronological order emphasizing the action or sequences of
events. Appears mainly in all kinds of fiction (novels, novellas, short stories, and in non-fiction such as
biographies, memoirs and journals.

FIGURE OF SPEECH (FOS)

 Tropes - FOS that involve basic shifts or radical turns in the meaning of the words that comprise
them.
1. Simile - directly compares two objects belonging to different classes. (like, as)
Ex. Friah is so gorgeous like a flower blooming confidently under the heat of the sun.
Sample Poem: Pisces by Ralph Semino Galan
2. Metaphor – indirectly compares objects belonging to different classes. It is the most
important FOS.
Ex. Arielle is a butterfly flying astonishingly on void.
Sample Poem: To the Man I Married by Angela Manalang-Gloria
3. Image – a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience (Imagery).
Sample Poem: Smoothing the Stone by Jaime An Lim
4. Symbol – embodies both literal and concrete attribute, as well as suggestive and
abstract quality.
Ex. Heart – organ (literal), love (figurative/abstract)
Snake – animal (literal), traitor si bes (figurative)
Sample Poem: Bringing the Dolls by Merlie M. Alunan

 Rhetorical Figures – FOS whose special effects are achieved for the most through unusual
sequencing of the words or sentence structure.
1. Allusion – the references usually brief and typically indirect, to a mythical, biblical,
historical, cultural or literary character, event, place or object.
Ex. He loved a love like that of Prince Hamlet.
2. Epithet – The adjective or descriptive phrase. (Appositive phrase)
Ex. ‘Red-haired’ Kenneth; ‘intimidatingly-smart’ Smarteena
3. Eponym – the name of person or deity which is so commonly associated with widely
recognized trait or contributions.
Ex. Hera for jealousy; John Hancock for signature
4. Hyperbole – overstatement, exaggeration. OA. Seems impossible.
Ex. I will fish the moon to prove my profound affection towards you.
Lander debated with a voice louder that a volcanoes eruption.
Wilson cries with eyes out.
5. Metonymy – The substitution or replacement of the name of a concrete object or thing
that is closely associated or connected with a word or concept for the word or concept
itself. (ANU DAW? HAHA)
 Ex. Philippines beat China in the FIBA. (Philippines for Filipinos; China for Chinese)
Our flag will rise from its underdog title. (flag for team)
6. Synecdoche – The naming of the part to signify the whole and vice versa. (Part siya sang
iya gina represent)
Ex. I love hitting the net. (Net for soccer); My hobby is playing shuttlecock with my
friend. (Shuttlecock for badminton); I hate shooting the ring. (Ring for basketball)
7. Oxymoron – 2 opposing words nga magkadikit nga nagaform meaning.
Ex. Pretty ugly (maganda ang pagkapangit || HAHA)
Original copies (the first copy)
8. Paradox – 2 opposing phrase, terms, clauses. Expansive form of Oxymoron.
Ex. I hate you for loving me. (Ouch)
Your beauty is so unique that you need to hide it from the public.
You can save money by spending it.
9. Personification
Ex. My phone is waking me up every morning.
I called help to the sea but she abandoned me.

10. Pun or Paronomasia – Punny ini sa (daw joke), Humorous, sometimes uses similar
words.
Ex. What do you call and alligator with a vest? (Investigator) || Funny diba?
After digging a well, I felt unwell.

Discussed Poem
 The Golf Links by Sarah M. Cleghorn (Concrete Poetry)
 The Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpi (Poem Concreteness)
 Bonsai by Edith L. Tiempo ( Poem with Particular elements)
 Elemental by Marjorie M. Evasco (Poem with Specific elements)
 The Look by Sara Teasdale (Figurative element)
 The Dangers of the Craft by Fatima Lm-Wilson (Figurative element)