With respect to the art of writing itself, it must always be treated with reverence. Not that too many great people have dedicated themselves towards glorifying the art or that it has become a means by which we have learned history and man's life but because it is in itself, a vital part of our existence.
Creative writing must come from the heart. It can be learned. It can be copied from what has already been written by other authors, only adding some innovative details. It can be new. Whatever you choose, so long as you write from your heart and from the deepest of your thoughts, you are sure to crop out creative ideas.
There is literally hundreds of ways by which you can manipulate your creativity towards writing. But whatever you do, never loose sight of your aim. That is, to write as your heart dictates.
We can never give justice to writing if we treat it as a job or we if we see it from a business-mind's perspective alone. It must be dealt with passionately. Without passion, one will never be good enough for writing.
Writers write because they have no other choice.
There seems to be a tiny voice (which somehow overpowers the owner of this voice) that urges someone to write. This never stops in telling you to put your ideas, sentiments, emotions, notions, name it, into paper that you can go back into.
This voice will let you explore the significance of writing to your being. This tiny voice will let you realize that writing has no boundaries. It is the guiding voice that would show you your own path, a road that was set apart for you even before time begun.
The strange thing though is that this inner writer never stops in urging you, not even if you have already forgotten listening to him. But you see, it is inevitable for an inborn writer to turn away from his gifts. The voice may be silent for sometime and it has justifications for doing so.
It may be that for a couple of times, you have failed to listen to it or worse, you deliberately turned away from it. But it is its nature to come back to its ever-persisting voice to encourage you to write as it would say.
Creative writing is not only an art, it is a devotion, a passion, an instinct. You may learn technical techniques on how to hone your talent but you see, at the end of the day, you may not need as much technical training as you would have first thought. In fact, you are built in ways that are ideal for your becoming a writer.
A philosopher once told us of the beasts that thrive within us. Now, know and really take into consideration that there lives a genius within you, you just have to tune into him. And once you do, you will learn that this genius is the only thing that could help you towards turning yourself into a creative writer.
Creative writing can be channeled out to profit. But that is not the real essence of writing. If you write, just write from your heart and never mind the pockets. Because after all, business will find its ways to follow those who write their hearts well.
When all are present and put into action then there is a synergistic effect, such that the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. These include motivation, discipline, commitment, perseverance, grammar, practice, and, of course, talent. Without such elements as motivation and perseverance, talent will lie dormant. But without imagination, talent will lack the spark to spawn a captivating or mesmerizing story.
Imagination is unique. It is unconquerable, as even a person confined to a cell can take leave by conjuring up its magic. Yet, paradoxically, its possessor must choose to release it, to allow it to roam freely beyond the world that surrounds us; to pull together elements we are already familiar with and assemble them in ways that we are unfamiliar with; to invent new characters that had never existed before and endow them with their own personalities; and to create stories that never happened, yet which have the power to move the reader to tears, anger, inspiration, action, and transformation.
The power of imagination is infinite. It not only flows from the writer, but it also enters the reader, stirring her imagination. When that happens, the reader swells with the capacity to transcend her own world, regardless of how mundane or exciting it may be.
It opens up new perspectives and possibilities. Imagination in play may lead to new lands of emotion, thought, and spirituality. The reader is not only affected, but the writer herself may enter new realms of insight into self, others, and the world; the world as the writer knows it and the world that the writer's imagination has created.
The author must not allow the rules of her craft to shackle her endeavors. Learn them, yes. Then, once they have become an integral part of one's unconscious, allow one's imagination to soar beyond them without restraint. Trust that they, the rules, will know when to exercise their rightful place in the universe of the author's process.
Columbus never set out to discover America when going to sea. In fact, the rules of the day suggested that if one were to go too far out to sea, an endpoint would be reached, beyond which the ship and its voyagers would descend to some dreaded unknown place.
It took courage and faith to embark on the journey. Those same attributes are to be found in the writer who sets out, armed with her imagination, to write a novel, even though the true course of the excursion and its real ending may not yet be envisioned, despite beliefs to the contrary. The writer's imagination instills the faith to begin and the courage to continue persevering.
No one lacks imagination. It is an inherent part of our makeup. Some may not conceive of themselves as possessing it and others may be deluded into believing that it is absent in them. For those people, their conception of its presence must be expanded, for the former, or the distortion of its absence must be corrected for the latter. Otherwise, writers who fall into either category will be reduced to the bane of repetition and confined to the limitations of the formulaic.
Some people think of problem solving as requiring imagination. And it does. However, the next level is that of ?problem finding.? When writing the novel, the author will stumble across many problems to be solved, but to enhance her story she must also exercise her imagination to find new problems to incorporate into her work, if the final product is to be enhanced to become the most that it is capable of becoming.
The atrophy or lack of its use is sometimes self-imposed. There is an old vignette about a huge gorilla that had been captured in Africa and brought to America for exhibit in a zoo. The gorilla had been temporarily placed in a cage while around the cage there was built an expansive ?natural? environment for it to live in. When the construction was completed, the gorilla was removed from the cage.
However, each step the gorilla took was limited to the same space and size of the cage it had lived in, even though it was now free to roam around the vast territory that had been constructed to accommodate it.
Humans sometimes suppress the freedom of their own imagination, hence refusing to go beyond what is immediately present to their sensory apparatus, failing to invent new images that extend beyond the familiar and known, neglecting to visualize alternate worlds outside the realm of that within which they live. The creative writer must not restrain her imagination like the gorilla in the fable, not taking advantage of the freedom he had been endowed with, for imagination is the touchstone of creativity.
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