Name of Group

Yola Dwita Safira (17.1.01.08.0024)

Dhayan Andreas Wisnu Putra (18.1.01.08.0013)

Rizat Adiya Firmansyah (18.1.01.08.0035)

1. What are the elements of creative writing?

a. Action

b. Character

c. Conflict

d. Dialogue

e. Genre

f. Narration

g. Pace

h. Plot

i. Point of view

j. Scene

k. Setting

l. Style

m. Suspense

n. Theme and motif

o. Tone
 p. Voice

2. How to actually write creatively?

Crafting an original work of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction takes time, practice,
and persistence. While there’s no exact science to creative writing, the following tips will help you
get started:

a. Write about what you know

Beginning writers always get told ‘write what you know’, but it’s good advice. Use
settings, characters, background, and language that you’re already familiar with and create new
stories from the world that you already know. This is like using research you’ve already done. And
remember, your background, what you bring to the act of writing, is as valid as what anyone else
can bring.

b. Write about what you don’t know

Use your imagination to create new situations, new characters, new relationships, even
new worlds. Choose to write about a different period in history, or a place that you’re not familiar
with. Where your imagination needs help, fill in the gaps with research. The best thing about being
a creative writer is creating.

c. Read widely and well Writers love reading

Make yourself familiar with the published landscape of writing in your chosen field,
whether it’s modern poetry, literary fiction, thrillers, short stories, or fantasy. Nothing encourages
good writing like reading good writing.

d. Hook your readers

Nobody is forced to read your novel or short story, so it’s important to hook readers right
away. Your opening sentence or paragraph should encourage them to continue, perhaps by making
them laugh, or exciting their curiosity, or just making them want to find out what happens next.
e. Get your characters talking

We find out about the people we meet through what they say to us, how they say it, their choice
of words, their accents, their verbal habits. Readers should be able to do the same with fictional
characters. People on the page really start to live when they start exchanging dialogue.

 f. Show rather than tell

Too much description, too many adjectives and adverbs, can slow up your narrative and cause
your readers to lose interest. Where possible, it’s better to show you readers what a person,
the atmosphere in the room, the relationship between your characters is like – show, that is, by
what they say, how they interact, what they do. It’s more effective than telling the reader
through wordy piles of information.

g. Get it right first time

Try to get your first draft as near perfect as possible. Few writers manage this kind of quality the
first time but no one ever wrote great literature by aiming low. On the contrary, aim for the best
and do your best from the very start.

h. Keep polishing

If you don’t get it right first time, you can do what most writers do – polish and perfect through
the editing process. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that editing is the same as proofreading;
it’s about much more than correcting errors. Rather, editing involves carefully going through your
work to see what to leave out, what to change, finding out what you have to do to improve your
writing, make it sharper, tidier, better.

i. Make the most of your opportunities

Many aspiring writers claim they simply don’t have the time to make the most of their ideas. Yet,
if you analyse a typical day, there are always those intervals – using public transport, waiting for a
 friend, time spent in the waiting room of the doctor or dentist – when it’s possible to pull out a
writing pad, a laptop, a tablet and just write. Identify your opportunities – five minutes is enough to
get a few sentences down – and use them.

3. What are the features of creative writing?

a. Imaginative

Creative writing is imaginative as it brings about something that did not exist or was not
known before, so it had to be imagined first. We can easily see this in art, but science and
technology are also full of imagination.

b. Purposeful

The examples of scientific imagination above have already indicated that creative
imagination is not daydreaming. It has a purpose, an objective, which can be a variety of things
from surviving after your boat has sunk, through opening a bottle of wine without a corkscrew, to
saving the life of cancer patients by finding a new treatment, or creating the complex emotional
impact of catharsis.

c. Original

The third feature, originality, highlights that creativity has individuality built in it. It
grows out of the individual as a plant grows out from a seed, and it is characteristic of the
individual, too.

d. Of Value

The last feature, which says that the product or result has to be of value, adds the element
of evaluation into creative thinking. When evaluating our creation, we need to see how it serves
the purpose. Also, we may need to judge the purpose, the goal itself.

4. What is the function of creative writing?

The functions of creative writing is to both entertain and share human experience. Writer attempt
to get at a turth about humanity through poetics and storytelling.
5. What are the qualities of creative writing?

1. Good writing anticipates reader questions.

Good writing serves the reader, not the writer. It isn’t indulgent. “The reader doesn’t turn the page
because of a hunger to applaud,” said longtime writing teacher Don Murray. Rather, good writing
anticipates what questions readers will have as they read a piece, and (before they ask them) it
answers them.

2. Good writing is grounded in data.

Data puts your content in context and gives you credibility. Ground your content in facts: Data,
research, fact-checking and curating. Your ideas and opinions and spin might be part of that story—
or they might not be, depending on what you are trying to convey. But content that’s rooted in
something true—not just your own opinions—is more credible.

3. Good writing is like good teaching.

Good writing strives to explain, to make things a little bit clearer, to make sense of our world… even
if it’s just a product description.

4. Good writing tells a full story. 

Good writing roots out opposing viewpoints. As Joe Chernov says, “There’s a name for something
with a single point of view: It’s called a press release.” Incorporate multiple perspectives when the
issue lends itself to that. At the very least, don’t ignore the fact that other points of view might exist;
to do so makes your reader not trust you.

5. Good writing comes on the rewrite.

That implies that there is a rewrite, of course. And there should be.
Writing is hard work, and producing a shitty first draft is often depressing. But the important thing is
to get something down to start chipping into something that resembles a coherent narrative.

6. Good writing is like math.

I mean this in two ways:

First, good writing has logic and structure. It feels solid to the reader: The writer is in control and has
taken on the heavy burden of shaping a lumpy jumble of thoughts into something clear and
accessible.

Second, good writing is inherently teachable just as trigonometry or algebra or balancing a balance
sheet is a skill any of us can master.

7. Good writing is simple, but not simplistic.

Business like life can be complicated. Products can be involved or concepts may seem impenetrable.
But good content deconstructs the complex to make it easily understood: It sheds the corporate
Frankenspeak and conveys things in human, accessible terms. A bit of wisdom from my journalism
days: No one will ever complain that you’ve made things too simple to understand.

8. Good writing doesn’t get hung up on what’s been said before.

Rather, it elects to simply say it better. Here’s where style is a differentiator—in literature and on
your website.

9. A word about writers: Good writers aren’t smug.

Most of the really good writers I know still feel a little sheepish calling themselves a “writer,”
because that’s a term freighted with thick tomes of excellence.  But like many achievements in life—
being called a success, or a good parent the label seems more meaningful when it’s bestowed upon
you by others.