Language Arts

General Creative Writing

Creative writing gives you the opportunity to let your imagination soar—freedom some students love and others find intimidating. Breaking your creative writing project into manageable tasks can make it a little easier.

Task 1: Requirements

Make sure you understand what your teacher expects of you. Review all of the information you have about the assignment and verify that you can answer the following questions. If you don’t know an answer, ask your teacher.

·        What are you expected to hand in?

·        When is your assignment due?

·        Is there a requirement for length?

·        Did your teacher provide any other guidelines for the assignment?

Task 2: Topic

Whether you’re starting from scratch or your teacher gave you a starting point—such as a general theme or setting—your first job is to decide what to write about.

1. Start by brainstorming. Don’t censor yourself—write down any ideas that come to mind. If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas, consider using something that you know, such as a hobby or a special interest.

Once you have a few ideas down on paper, pick the one that most appeals to you. Example: Your teacher asks you to write a short story from the perspective of a teenager. You’ve learned a lot about children from your after school job at a day care, so you decide to write about a teenager who is raising a younger sibling by himself.
 

2. Define the goal of your piece. Every story has a reason for being told. What is yours? Example: Your story will illustrate the difficulties that a teenage boy and his younger brother experience in their life without parents.
 

Task 3: Plot and elements

Once you’ve come up with a story idea and a goal, it’s time to flesh out the elements of your piece—that is, the theme, setting, point of view, characters, and plot.

1. Write a brief plot summary. Include a beginning, middle, and ending, as well as any possible plot twists. Example: You’ve decided to write about a day in the life of a teenager who shoplifts a gold bracelet and intends to sell it to a classmate for enough money to buy his younger brother a baseball glove. On the way out of the department store, the teenager is detained by store security, who calls the police. The police take the teen to the police station.
 

2. Identify the elements of your piece. These components may vary depending on the kind of fiction you are writing, but they typically include:

·        Theme

·        Setting

·        Point of view

·        Characters

·        Plot

3. Once you’ve identified your story’s elements, begin to flesh them out. Example: Your story portrays the difficulty of two brothers’ life without parents (theme) by looking at a day in the life of a teenage boy (main character). Also appearing are the teen’s younger brother, the little brother’s Little League coach and teammates, a store security guard, and police officers and personnel at the police station (supporting characters). The action takes place at a baseball diamond, at a department store, and at the police station (setting). The story is narrated by the teen (point of view).
 

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