Media composition project
- 1. Creative WritingYang HaiENG 300July, 1st
- 3. Where Do I Start?
- 4. Where Do I Start?A good place to start is to ask you what sort of creative writing do you want to do? You might just want to try it out, perhaps a page or so, just to see what it’s like. Or maybe you’d like to write a short story, perhaps even a long story or maybe a novel. This is all fine and good because what we want to do is write!What we need is an idea to get you going. Any idea will do. As long as you find it interesting. That’s the key. So from one idea we can get more ideas. More ideas leads to a story. But don’t wait until you have the whole story. Start to write once you have an idea. Once you start writing more ideas will come to you and, eventually, you’ll get your story.
- 6. Character Building Stuff!Characters should be well rounded, three-dimensional. When beginning creative writing it’s easy to fall into the trap of creating flat characters because these are the characters we’re familar with. Flat characters are usually stereotypes like the forgetful professor, the anorexic model, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the shifty-eyes thief. Flat characters are predictable. Characters should be complex and giving them conflicting traits only shows that they’re ‘real’. They should be people rather than caricatures. Good characters breath life into the story and your readers should recognise their own selves in the characters you create.
- 7. Creative Writing Activities for Ages 9 to 11