Essays on Creative Writing

Everybody has their own idea of what creativity is. Creativity is defined as the capability to see the world in different ways, to discover unseen patterns, to make links between apparently distinct phenomena, and to create solutions. Creativity encompasses two practices: thinking and putting the thoughts in a tangible object that can be heard or see. Various components are needed for one to be creative. Such components, together with the reasons as to why people create are discussed in this paper. Further, the questions of whether creativity has a value, or whether it can be taught are answered. Creativity ...

American pulp fiction is iconic; it influenced the development of American culture for decades and maintains a lasting influence to this day in the form of comic books, movies, and current literature. Pulp fiction was printed on cheap pulp paper during the 1930s and 1940s, though they were first created in 1896, and was hugely successful because of the rising literacy rates of the American population and the cheapness and proliferation of the products themselves. Pulp fiction eventually lost its popularity during World War II when paper rationing affected the population and movies, television, comic books, and normal paperbacks ( ...

Poetry, though it dominated literary studies for centuries, has declined in recent years for various reasons. From Homer and Virgil to T.S. Eliot and Walt Whitman, poetry was a literary mode held in greater regard by the general public than mediums such as the novel and theater. While one may argue, this decline results from verse being an obsolete mode of expression, the more likely cause for poetry’s growing obscurity takes the form of growing elitism that excludes anyone who has not studied poetry from enjoying verse. The modern era has brought with it a culture that values ...

Alberto Rios is a Latino poet who was born on September 18, 1952, in Nogales, Arizona to a Mexican father and English mother. He spent much of his youth crossing the fence which bordered Mexico and Arizona to visit his Mexican relatives. Many of his school friends were Mexicans who crossed the border daily to attend U.S. schools. Gowing up in a multicultural environment made him more open and accepting of those who are different. He developed a strong interest in poetry and creative writing at a young age and this interest continued in college, and he earned a ...

Writing Experience

Writing Experience

Background Introduction

The paper is a report on the experience of coming up with a topic in unit 1102. The focus is on applying narrative devices in writing. In particular, the paper explores the application of settings, characters, and theme and plot elements. These elements make the difference in making a paper average or exceptionally presented. The way a writer applies them can be either shallow or it can be deep, which tells the story in vivid imagery. This applies in the descriptive presentation of subjects, personalities, and places or events. In preparation for this presentation, Oliver Sacks ‘The ...

Film studies

Movie – Capote (2005)

1) creative process A true fiction writer develops the art of creative writing to enhance the impact on the audience and his impression of the possible subject for a novel depends on how he perceives the world around him. An art of creative writing involves fusion of the reality driven facts presented in a fictitious wrap of events so that the writer has the thrill of unusualness and a notion of familiarity with the logical occurrence of the events. The movie, Capote (2005) has shown that Truman Capote was extremely bored with the prevalent trend of ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie brings us the fictional work entitled “Birdsong” in 2010, and as is usual for her, does so in a way that seems to be nonfiction. Reading anything by Adichie, the prominent Nigerian author, who frequently puts a 21rst century face on the Igbo people, is almost an invitation to reading the private diary of someone’s life, whether that life is that of a person living through a civil war, a person struggling to grasp American culture as she arrives from Nigeria in search for a better life, or as the girlfriend to a married man, ...

Crowd Working

INTRODUCTION The nature of work is changing. From a fixed-hour, fixed-place and fixed pay job design, more recent job offers in current market suggest new developments in employment. In older work arrangements, employees are hired based on fixed-period contracts (usually renewable at employer's will and most consistently cancelled during periods of economic crunch and mass layoffs) and are compensated in return for labor hours spent in more or less fixed location and/or workplace layout design. The emergence of ICT innovations, particularly web-based workflow systems, has, however, introduced interesting novelties into how work can be done but also, probably more ...