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Creative writing Skills – Become a Creative Writer

teacher avatar Satish Kumar Sahani, Learn to Earn and Earn to Learn

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    • 1.

      Why you should join this course ?

      1:13

    • 2.

      What is Creative writing ?

      3:09

    • 3.

      What is Imaginative language ?

      4:31

    • 4.

      Essentials of Copywriting ?

      3:48

    • 5.

      Types of creative writing ?

      6:00

    • 6.

      How to become a Creative writer ?

      3:07

    • 7.

      Skills required to become a Creative writer ?

      2:31

    • 8.

      Tips for creative writing

      2:15

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About This Class

The class is about learning and understanding the core skills of Creative writing which will make you a better and more creative writer. You will learn how to transform your, Creative writing Skills, unlearn old writing, develop new and meaningful writing habits and become a better writer by practicing your writing and content.

This class is for anyone who wants to feel confident, feel fulfilled, and happy to write great content by following the path of practice and attaining a creative writer mindset. It is for someone who wants to learn how to write under new challenges in life by managing their time, self-affirmation, and positive thoughts.

You being someone who practices Creative writing Skills can play a vital role in your life because you can provide solutions to the most challenging problems in a more innovative and pragmatic way by utilizing the skills in the most efficient way. You see the future and plan accordingly which will give you an upper edge over others and make you stand out.

Whether you are a student, professional, or businessman, there will be situations where you need to write effectively and come out with simple yet effective solutions to the most complex problems in society.

All you need is 30-40 minutes of your precious time with complete focus to understand the concept of Creative writing Skills and how developing this one skill can change your entire life.

The course will flow in form of audio-visual slides with graphics and animations which will make your learning a pleasant and memorable experience. 

You should join the course if the answer to any of the questions is “Yes”.

  1. You feel lost and not focused while writing?
  2. You find it difficult to write good content?
  3. You value writing alone than in groups?
  4. You do not get time to practice Creative writing?
  5. You lack a creative and innovative mindset?

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Satish Kumar Sahani

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1. Why you should join this course ?: I'm so excited to start this course with you. Well, let me ask you certain questions. Do you find it difficult to write good content? You lack creativity. You value writing alone than with people. You do not get time to practice creative writing. Or you lack creative and innovative mindset? Well, if the answer to any of these questions is yes, you have reached the right place with no more excuse. In this course, you're going to learn creative writing skills. Learn with me with over a decade of experience in writing creative content. In this course, you will become a paraprofessional full of confidence and positivity. It will also help you in your job. This course is for professional students and learners. In this course you're going to learn the basics of creative writing, how you can become a creative writer. And with my own experience of being a creative writer, I'll share some one wonderful tips that will help you to become a better creative writer. 2. What is Creative writing ?: Have you ever wondered who writes the script of TV shows? The brilliant comedy shows, what you watch? The web sees the film, script, novels, great books, who win lot of prices. Now, it is all about creative writing. Creative writing as a genre in which you explore your creativity and write stories based on it. If you want to be a creative writer, this course is going to help you develop you as a creative writer. So the first thing you need to do is you need to instigate your imagination, your creativity, your innovation. You need to think out-of-the-box. Many times you will come across situations and circumstances that you might feel attracted towards. Be better solutions you get to the problems. The more creative and wonderful decision-maker you'll become. More creative writer is someone who writes exceptionally well using his creative mind. So I am a person who thinks beautifully, logically and systematically. I need to be equally good person in writing my thought process in beautiful and correct lines. And that's the recipe of being a creative writer. It's not similar to what journalist or academics rate. It has completely different form of writing. Creative writing, user's imagination, census, and emotions. You must have seen while you read a novel or watch a web series. There are different characters. All the characters have their own interpretation. What is their role, how they're going to act in that particular segment? It is all decided based on their own character. And this is where your senses, your emotions, your expedience comes into picture. How do you bring what you have experienced in life? All have seen through interactions, through wizards, through traveling into your life creative writing, scenario. It is also based on facts and information. The more facts and information you bring in your creative writing, the more attracted people who will become. This is how you develop yourself as a creative writer. 3. What is Imaginative language ?: Your imagination is the power which you can use to become a creative writer. More you imagine, the better you imagine. And the broader you imagine, the more quality of content you produce. And that's the beauty of a creative writer. He has great imaginative powers. He can imagine any kind of situation based on which he can drape a story, a fiction. That's the characteristic of a creative writer. Now what do you mean by imaginative language? Have you ever heard of anecdote? What? If you are trying to talk about something, an interesting story about a real incident or pose, right? So this is something which is very common once we talk with our friends, right? For example, I might give example of my own dime in nineties when we used to go to school and how the education system was in how it is today in 2022. So I am narrating a story through an example by giving an anecdote. By telling a story. For example, well, in my time we used to study through blackboards. The teachers used to write on boats with the help of a chalk. It was all cognitive learning, which was based on real lifetime experience of sitting in the class and learning. Once the teacher is giving the lecture. What is a metaphor? Well, you must have heard that people give example of something relating to another aspect. For example, life is like a highway. He's a shining star. The combat is enough life as with the highway that it goes on and on. He's a shining star. So particular person has been talked about. He's very good in terms of studies. So I'm giving and relating be characteristic of that posts with a different object. So a metaphor as a figure of speech in which a word or phrase denotes one kind of object or idea. And it is used in place of another to suggest likeness or similarity. You must have also heard about assemblies. Assemblies is a figure of speech involving comparison of one thing with another, all completely different. For example, he's brave as lions. So no one can be line but the bravery of Lyon, who is not afraid of anyone, can be given as example to show how brave the person is. Just basically a method of comparison. You're comparing the bravery of line with the bravery of person. He must have done something really great to be compared with lion. There are different figures of speech which you use to create a figurative language. Once you read this kind of language, a different sort of image gets built up in your mind. You start to imagine things. You start to look into things. So if you're reading a story where a person is going to A-sharp and buying groceries. Now, you'll start imagining that person is really going to be sharp and buying groceries. In there. He came upon someone. We never met, but was quite interested to know about him. This is called imaginative language. 4. Essentials of Copywriting ?: Now how do you become a creative writer on how do you do create a writing? Well, writing is all about being simple, yet effective in the minds of the reader. You need to make your writing fluid. And with expressions, you need to make it easy for the person to understand. But once we talk about creative writing, you need to focus only on creative writing. Which means the part which you're rating has to come with your imagination. Something which you believe can take the form of a story. Now once you start to learn the process of creative writing, you need to make you feel comfortable. In a distraction free environment. When I say distraction free environment, it means an environment free of noise. Distraction in terms of people gathering, aren't making a lot of fast. So it should be a quiet place. It should be a place where you can focus on your instincts and deliver the best. The writing style. You can choose, either your bedroom or a coffee shop. You can also write while you are sitting and sipping your coffee in your garden. You need to find the strength and weaknesses of where you feel comfortable in where you do not. You need to challenge yourself and different genres. So I may be a good short story writer. But why can't I write a novel? Even if I cannot, why should I not try it once? I should write different nonfiction stories, I should publish a book as well. That's how I need to develop my mindset. I need to explore new types of writing with precision and competency. Becoming a short story writer is the easiest way for you to become a creative writer. Many times, once we sit alone and we think about something, we come up with lots of poetry, personal essays, which can again be a form of creative writing for you. You can also learn from other writers. The best way to do that is to read and watch. Other writers speak. Many of them have their own courses. You can join them, learn their style of writing, how they develop their own thought process, how they write and do creative writing. Learn from their experiences, get the tips and tricks. It'll be of a great help. For example, heard one writers say that in order to become a good creative writer, you need to write something. It could be on any topic, any number of lines. But unless and until you start writing, you cannot become a creative writer. That's so simple yet effective advice that in order to become a creative writer, I need to start writing first. 5. Types of creative writing ?: But let's talk about different forms of creative writing. You must have read biographies. Mark my Gandhi, Martin Luther King. From the journey of taking Berg till the last breath. It could be an autobiography or a biography written by someone famous personality. Now biographies will give you the real insight of the life of the person. It helps you learn a lot about the experiences, the different circumstances, the restrictions, the boundaries, the failures in how the person evolve from being a failure to a success. This is what will make you more creative. Once you read autobiographies, you will get great ideas. You will learn a new form of writing. Another form of creative writing is fiction, that is normal. Short stories. A short story is something which you imagine. A story which has characters defined by your own instinct. You are letting them play through a story. You have a body, you have a starting. That's where you are defining your own writing style. Many times, we listened to good people giving speeches, especially the famous world leaders. You will learn lots of things that'll help you in your process of creative writing. Boston lessees, late 18, script writing, poetry. These are some ways in which you can enhance your creative writing skills. For example, once we talk about poetry, there are different forms of poetry. And poetry is the easiest form of expression in a more complex way or through simple lines. Expressing yourself through your thoughts and emotions. Novels are of different jhanas. Mystery, romance thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction. It may be true story or maybe based entirely on the imagination of the author. Once you start developing the habit of reading novels, you will learn a lot of creativity. Creative writing style. You will develop your own creative writing style. As I said, short stories are the best way to start your creative writing career or your journey. You need to define the character, setting, plot, the conflicts between different characters, the theme of the entire story. Essays are an easy way to write something which you strongly believe is true. It could be a personal essay, descriptive essay. An essay based on facts and figures with positive arguments. It could also be a narrative essay where you are defining the way you feel about a certain topic. Many times. In fact, most of the people have the habit of writing journals. You preserve your memory, thoughts, and experiences. Every day through this form of writing. You can make your writing crystal clear and appear to be evocative. Way you're speaking to someone on paper. You're expressing your entire day. That's how you're going to bring ideas to reality. How to solve a problem. Many times you may compare certain things. You'll find the cause and the effect of a particular argument. Once you're writing something descriptive, you need to bring the idea, the reason why it's flowing forward. Your writing should be persuasive. You need to convince the person. You need to make the person believe in your story. At the same time, it has to flow. The way the water flows through the river stream. A person should not stop and think what you have written. Rather, every line should make the story more clear. There are different other genres which bin, which we may not think of being creative. But it will definitely help you to become a creative writer. Who can write magazine articles. Get you Stories featured in newspapers, write essay from websites, biographies, advertisement greetings, books or articles on science history. Now these are different ways in which you are developing the habit of becoming a great creative writer. Start doing that. 6. How to become a Creative writer ?: Now you know what is creative writing? How do you become a creative writer? You have joined the scores to understand Creative Writing and explore the possibility of you becoming a creative writer. What does it take? Well, can you describe your day with creative writing? Whatever happened through the entire Dayton's morning till the time you go to bed. Different types of incidents, people you met, the interactions, you hate, the kind of feelings you felt, anything which happened throughout the day. You want to express that in form of writing. You can write a blog or you can write just a daily diary. Also, once you start creative writing unit to look from the aspect of every person. For example, I'm writing about what happened today in the afternoon ones I made my manager who was not in a good mood and he shouted on me. So I'm talking about the mood manager, the kind of emotions which he expressed today with me. You need to talk about the origin of the story. For example, you are writing a nonfiction novel or a novel which is based on entirely an imaginative story, which has never existed, but it is written so beautifully that it appears to be a real story of someone. So for, for, for the reader to get that perspective and to believe that this is a real story, you need to talk about the origin of this story. You need to describe the details, the characters. You need to build some rapport with the reader. You need to utilize your own senses and understand these centers of the reader wants. He goes through every page in sentence. You can also edit your writing and improve its sentence construction. You can break the language barriers, right? In different form of creative language, could be your mother tongue, English, or any language which you want to express. So if you want to become a creative writer, the first thing is to be comfortable with yourself. To understand that being a creative writer is a journey. It is a process that will take time in. Once you start understanding the entire process, you will start to enjoy the journey and slowly become as a great creative writer. 7. Skills required to become a Creative writer ?: So now let's talk about certain skills required for you to become a creative writer. What exactly you have learned so far about creative writing? What? Creative writing is a form of writing in which you're using your imagination, your creative thinking abilities to develop a story, to write something which is based on your power of imagination. It is original and expressive. It expresses your feelings, thoughts, and beliefs. The idea and the purpose of writing creative is to bring facts and figures on the table. Start the journey of being a creative writer. Read as much as you can. Start journaling, right? Every day. What happened with you throughout the day? Ten different forms of courses. Practice using literary devices. At the end, right, right, right. The more you write, the better you will become. So you need to keep your audience in mind before you start or think. To even write. Write what you know. If you don't know, do research, gather facts and figures. Creativity is the key. No matter how much information you have, no matter how much you know about a particular subject. If you cannot put it creatively in form of words, that might not be effective. So you need to push the boundaries of your imagination and come up with a story which you are able to define and bring to a conclusion. Some of the important, essential skills for you to become a creative writer is to eat critically, read different forms of content, right? Concise to the point. You need to be good at research and coming up with solutions to difficult problems. Also, your ability to analyze and do analysis of different forms of data available is a prerequisite. You need to give good time to revise your own ideas and content. 8. Tips for creative writing: First, when you're writing a short story, you need to develop your characters very carefully. Your character should come out naturally with their own point of view. Every character has its own point of view. And that has to be clear and expressive. Your writing should be in a form of dialogue, which is not only through the characters, but also from the viewpoint of the lighter. You can use different forms of literary devices. Character development, understanding the team, developing the plot, having a point of view through different settings and dialogues, are some of the important techniques in creative writing. As I've already defined. You can use anecdotes, examples from the past, metaphors and similes compare what you're feeling with something which people already know. Use different figures of speech in order to get your imagination and emotional appeal to the people. Write what you know. Make yourself and your readers hook to what they're reading. Your description you are heading. You first line should be so attractive that readers can not ignore it at any cost or get things right for yourself. Write about what you know and what you don t know through a lot of research led to characters talk about their own story. You need to keep polishing your writing skills that you can only do once you read and practice writing. Letter-writing reach out to people. Because once people start feeding, they'll start giving you feedback. And that's how you're going to become a great creative writer.