INTRODUCTION

Welcome to this blog about Creative Writing. First and foremost, I recommend you to check your basic knowledge about the discipline by filling out this form. When you finish, come back and keep reading this introduction. We have plenty of time.

Hopefully, you have landed your mind under the realm of Creative Writing. This blog will show you some tools and tricks that you can use to improve your writing and creative skills.

I also recommend you have a look at the following old article written by John Barth about the possibility of teaching Creative Writing and your role as a writer in your learning process.

Since there is no standard definition of what is Creative Writing, I will give you a working definition:

“Creative writing is an academic discipline that deals with the process of creating an original piece of writing from a creative point of view. This piece can be prose or verse, and it can be fictional or non-fictional.”

This blog is meant to show you some tools that you can use to improve your writing and creative skills.

Every week I will write a blog post that will explain one specific topic about Creative Writing. Some of the topics covered will be: how to write a short story, how to write a flash fiction story, how to write a sonnet, how to write a non-fiction article, etc.

Moreover, in every week's blog post, there will be a writing prompt, that will help you kickstart the task to create your own sonnet, your own short story, and so on.

There is a post I recommend you to save on your favorites called “Links and Resources” where you can find a lot of information about Creative Writing. The parts of this section are: Websites (where you can find other blogs and websites with resources), Videos (with lessons and explanations about writing different material), Podcasts (that I have listened to and found interesting to improve my writing), and Literary Magazines (where you can read stories and poems written by other people or where you can submit your own for publication).

If you are still not sure about the possibilities of Creative Writing, check out this presentation.