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KIZZA MARIE
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1. What are the purposes and benefits of creative writing?


• The purpose of creative writing is to both entertain and share human experience,
Like love or loss.
• writers attempt to get at a truth about humanity through poetics and storytelling.
• If you'd like to try your hand at creative writing, just keep in mind that whether you are trying to
Express a feeling or a thought, the first step is to use your imagination.

Creative writing exercises also offer benefits to writers that are often overlooked and
undervalued, especially in a world that’s shifting toward regimented standardized tests and
data-driven work.

Here are seven benefits of completing creative writing exercises on a regular basis.

1. Building Confidence

When writing creatively, you’re engaging in an exercise that will allow you to truly develop your
own voice and perspective without consequential limitations. You get a better opportunity to
explore and express how you feel about topics, perspectives, philosophies, characters, etc. And
this will allow you to feel more comfortable and confident when asserting your opinions and
perspectives in other things you write, too.

Writers who don’t write creatively might worry about coming across as an authority or reliable
source. By forgetting to insert their own take on the subjects that they’re writing about, they
unintentionally end up losing their voice and sound like drones spouting off data. As a result,
they lose out on utilizing their unique voice and coming across as an expert with real-world and
firsthand experience.

2. Artistic Self-Expression

Individuals who write creatively on a regular basis engage in self-expression, without even
realizing it most of the time. Such self-expression can be a healthy way to navigate through
negative emotions and thoughts that a writer may experience on a day-to-day basis. Experts
even agree that artistic self-expression (i.e., creative writing) “might contribute to maintenance
or reconstruction of a positive identity” for individuals who deal with different kinds of trauma
(Medical News Today).

While it may sound hokey, imagine being stressed at work and then taking a short break to write
something creative. When you begin to write and unveil characters or settings, you’re able to
better identify why you’re stressed or, at the very least, uncover the negative emotion that
you’re experiencing. This gives you the opportunity to work through it all and move in a more
positive direction. You can do this for your personal life too, whenever you experience some
sort of trauma, stress, or setback.

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A lot of people think that creative writing is frivolous because it’s all about imagining worlds,
situations and characters. How could that possibly be beneficial to a real-life working adult who
needs to get real work done?

Well, when you engage in creative writing, you’re stimulating and pushing your imagination and
“thinking outside the box.” This allows you to refocus your energy on other things and to
become better at discovering alternatives and new solutions to problems you’re experiencing.
Whether you’re a scientist or a marketer, creative writing will give you the imagination boost
you need to think more innovatively and to push boundaries.

4. Thought Clarification

Creative writing allows you to clarify your thoughts as well as your emotions. For example, if
you’re a marketer trying to develop your next marketing campaign, you could write a short story
in which your target customer reads your promotional emails. You can imagine what they’re
doing, where they’re sitting, what’s surrounding them, etc. This allows you to narrow down the
language and tactics you use.

Or, if you’re a technical writer writing about a new computer platform, you can write a creative
scenario in which someone using the platform experiences a problem. This exercise allows you
to clarify your thoughts about what type of information will be valuable to include for your
readers and what can be omitted.

In addition, you can also complete creative writing exercises for your personal life to uncover
what you think about topics or situations you find yourself immersed in.

5. Better Understanding of the Mechanics of Reading and Writing

As you begin to regularly do writing exercises, you’ll not only gain a more extensive vocabulary,
you’ll also come to understand the mechanics of reading and writing better. You’ll know when
strict grammar rules work and when they don’t, and you’ll know what will make something
you’re writing flow better for your readers even if what you’re writing is a budget report. Once
you become comfortable with and have mastered the mechanics of writing professionally and
creatively, you’ll be able to bend and break the rules when you need to—to use your own voice
and make what you’re writing compelling without coming across as amateur, dull, or
inauthentic.

6. Empathy and Communication Skills

When writers create universes with imaginary characters and settings, they must also imagine
personalities, emotions, places, and walks of life outside of their own lives. This can provide
them with a healthy dose of empathy and understanding for others who are not like themselves
and who don’t live where they live or experience what they experience every day.

When writers understand other perspectives better, they’re able to communicate better. They
can figure out how to explain and discuss topics from various vantage points. This skill is
exceedingly important in both the professional and personal realms.

7. Better Mental, Emotional, and Physical Health

One study, among others, has revealed that expressive writing has yielded better mental,
emotional, and physical health benefits. Creative writing alleviates stress levels, and can ward
off severe illnesses, among other things.

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2. What are the sub-skills in writing?

Being curious, learning to find things that interest you and to ask good questions can help you
find stories or topics worth writing about. If you are bored, your readers probably will be too.
On the flip side, a seemingly boring topic can become interesting if you find something
interesting to say.
• curating
•selecting
• organizing and presenting what is relevant to your purpose, genre, audience.

listening to your work with empathy for your audience… where is the connection between you
and your audience? What do they need or want to know? How quickly or in depth do they need
to know it? What barriers do you want to put up (in fiction) or tear down (in nonfiction)? When
revising, you want to follow the path you are leading readers down and see if they are going
where you think they are, as well as making sure that the journey is ‘courteous’ (Sol Stein?)— in
whatever way is appropriate to the genre.

learning to accept criticism you really need feedback to be at your best. Writing is a
conversation that happens with an author and reader at a distance. If you can find a few who
will have the conversation with you personally and let you learn from them, it will make a big
difference. Among self published books, sometimes it’s obvious who didn’t want anyone to give
them feedback

Text analyst read a lot. Pay attention to moments in what you read that you really like or dislike.
Knowing your own preferences can help you develop your communication toolbox. Take time to
figure out why. If you’re not sure what about the writing is producing the effect, get a good
book on revising. It can act as your mentor.

Then there are the old standbys of the writing process brainstorming, organizing, revising,
editing, getting feedback, developing vocabulary and word skill for better word choice, learning
how syntax, word choice, pacing, etc affect tone; finding your voice. Some of these are
contained in the points above.
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REFLECTION

Each century always comes with different challenges which lead to different ways of thinking. In order
to tackle each problem, some skills would be required. Hence, Creativity is a key educational goal and
essential in 21st century skill. It defines creativity as “the process of having original ideas that have
value”. Originality is seen as the most important aspect of creativity because something must be novel
or unique in some way to be considered creative. Moreover, I think creativity comes in many forms. And
everyone is creative in their own way.
Most people think of creativity in the classical sense. If someone does art, or photography, plays an
instrument, writes songs, and stories, that means their creative. But there are other kinds of creativity
[Link] universe itself is a creative masterpiece, and we as humans have amazing creative powers. Each
of us has our own creative super power. In addition, As far as I remembered I was chosen to compete a
creative writing contest in my high school days at first I was worried about the time involved. I
discovered when I've given 5 minutes to write what I want to write in a competition. To some extent
,the time is a continuation of the work in progress. Realizing that creativity does not have to consume
large chunks of time is more meaningful than tokens.” I like the tone of the writing. It feels like there is a
conversation going on. I like the stories of famous people and how their creativity influenced and
changed their lives. CREATIVITY FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS describes what many creative people really
do when they create. It focuses on the practical applications of a theoretical approach to creativity
training the author has developed. Many suggestions for enhancing creativity focus on ideas that are
over 60 years old. This new approach may be helpful for those seeking to develop 21st Century Skills of
creativity. Five core attitudes (Risk-taking, Self-Discipline, Tolerance for Ambiguity, and Group Trust),
Seven I’s (Inspiration, Intuition, Improvisation, Imagination, Imagery, Incubation, and Insight), and
several General Practices—the use of ritual, meditation, solitude, exercise, silence, and a creative
attitude to the process of life, with corresponding activities, are described, discussed, and illustrated.
This may be help us to be creative.

Basically creativity is being in flow. Anyone can be in flow. Its about doing and not thinking. Letting life
work through you, and that's when life just falls into place. And you don’t even have to worry about how
something will work out or happen, because you're in flow. You’re allowing the creative force of the
universe to work through you.
To me creativity feels divine, it is godlike and its what makes us as humans intelligent.