Creative Writing: Fear of the Unknown

The compulsive writing forced upon students in their normal education stifles their creative process. Each student has experiences and an imagination that could create worlds for potential readers, but teachers are made to test their ability to make an argument within confined and detailed instructions. This type of instruction is all to prove that a student is able to write conventionally. How are the next great authors supposed to come out of an education that does not foster a trust in the student

destruction and regrowth, leaving a clean slate and a new beginning. I selected this theme because while the focal point and characters change throughout my writing the constant idea throughout my pieces consisted of moving on, growing, and starting a new beginning. I think that lately my writing has been full of an unknown tone, an excitement/ fear of growing up and starting over. I believe this is all because I've reached a point in my life where I’m going to college and moving away. I’m delighted

unable to comprehend comes with every new experience. Even after I survived freshman year and gained some sense of who I was to the school and social system, I continued to encounter situations that rendered me completely vulnerable to the fear of the unknown. This can be found in cooking food, walking down the street at

write with insight. These are some of the great things that make creative writing become irreplacalbe in my writing life. My writing life starts out with writing whatever comes out to my head, without being troubled by grammar mistakes and a lack of sentence variety. In this case, anything that has to do with free writing such as writing stories and fictions are the things I’m most into in my writing life. But whenever I say I love writing, what I really mean is that I enjoy seeing the process of turning

So, five days a week for four hours each day, I work on my writing. I use a lot of Lemott's and Brande's advice like writing in the mornings, writing in a journal and taking time to reflect on my work every few months. I feel this is one of my biggest strengths and with this work ethic, my writing has matured immensely over the years. My imagery, plots and characters have become more rounded, instead of the vague elements that used to be present due to lack of time spent on the craft. I have also

micro fiction, or creative non-fiction. It is inspired by Anne Carson’s Short Talks where she analyzes different subjects that are interconnected on a grander scheme. I used Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing: the Elements of Craft to create my creative non-fiction piece and to develop its subjects. The goal of my project is to offer a different perception on subjects that are deemed irrelevant, but present an insight that shows a collective meaning. The genre of creative nonfiction is evolving

Poetry provides a creative outlet to artists to express their struggles and feelings often relating to character or the potential for greatness. Emily Dickinson wrote one of these poems focusing on courage. She begins this poem, “we never know how high we are”, not surprisingly with the line, “we never know how high we are” (1). It goes on to say, “Till we are called to rise and then, if we are true to plan, out statures touch the skies.” Inspiring deep thinking, Emily writes of how people do

ago put down in frustration. I go in for another attempt to write and build up a large assortment of words. As a few seconds pass, with the pen firmly gripped in my right hand, the pen and paper come together. Disregarding my momentary lapse of a creative flow, I stare down at the endless rows of horizontal blue lines. Memories surface of myself being in this situation many times over, especially being creatively stuck before I break through. Finally, contact is made to the page and the tip of the

Mental Illness and Musicians Writing a song can be a grueling process if the inspiration isn’t there. Without an emotional basis to stimulate inspiration, nothing of creative value can be accomplished. Musicians consistently look to their emotions when it comes to song writing. Passion is a key ingredient in producing something of artistic significance. By that logic, a more emotional person should also be a more creative one. But what about those with bipolar disorder? Wouldn’t their

Reading and writing are necessary skills that were taught to me at a young age. From, creative writing classes, speed reading tests, countless English based classes, and research papers I have learned about myself as a reader and writer. My education from preschool, elementary, and high school were heavily based on reading and writing, which shaped my writing style and how I analyze information. Now that I am an experienced student, I have learned the value of having the important skills that were