What is Creative Writing & How to Get Started

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  • Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
  • Creative writing is any writing done for creative or artistic purposes. As a result, the rules can be flexible if not outright broken, and there are endless different forms of creative writing to try. Here's how to get started as a creative writer!
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    0:00 - Intro
    0:41 - Pick a form of writing
    1:11 - Start small
    2:00 - Research the form
    2:29 - Draw from your own life
    3:14 - Learn how and when to break the rules
    4:27 - Write widely & experiment
    5:23 - Practice over perfection
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  • @Alorajones19
    @Alorajones19 5 месяцев назад +18

    I find creative writing and poetry to be the hardest form of writing there is. I was always pretty good at academic and persuasive writing. It’s creative writing that intimidates me.

  • @ShepStevVidEOs
    @ShepStevVidEOs Год назад +10

    I love the don’t try and make it perfect tip. That’s a major reason why I don’t write much. I look at and think, “well that’s crap.”

  • @malosprime4910
    @malosprime4910 Год назад +5

    Creative writin was what got me into fiction writing. Best clas I took at art school.

  • @v-elgny
    @v-elgny 2 месяца назад +2

    as a student who immediately gets terrified whenever teachers give out narrative assignments, your content was really helpful. realizing that there basically isn't any rules to creative writing, definitely boosted my confidence. thank you and please keep up the good work

  • @sarahumlaut
    @sarahumlaut Год назад +60

    I have a degree in creative writing but still clicked this video because Shaelin explains concepts so well lol

    • @jackhaggerty1066
      @jackhaggerty1066 Год назад +2

      *Fiction is about the things that can't ever be finished or explained or fully understood; it's about the places we can't ever reach.*
      David Vann author of Goat Mountain.

    • @crack10th
      @crack10th Год назад +1

      As you said you have a degree in creative writing I also want to be a writer I'm in 10th standard I have written things but i don't know what path I should walk on to reach what I want to achieve help me if you see this

    • @sarahumlaut
      @sarahumlaut Год назад +1

      @@crack10th it depends on what you want to achieve! I'd recommend researching writing programs if you are considering studying creative writing in university :)

    • @crack10th
      @crack10th Год назад +1

      @@sarahumlaut thank you for your advice and I wish you luck for your career as a writer

    • @glam_with_sakshi
      @glam_with_sakshi Год назад

      I am in class 10 I don't know anything about creative writing please tell how to write it's introduction of everything plzzz

  • @zombiewerewolf9189
    @zombiewerewolf9189 Год назад +4

    I'm definitely going to focus on short fiction for now because it's a whole lot better than attempting to write the first book of a series. Long story short, it's a lot more than I can chew.

  • @amyharrod7639
    @amyharrod7639 Год назад +5

    This is Great advice - just the catalyst I needed to get back into writing. Thank you!

  • @tumeloramontsho4955
    @tumeloramontsho4955 Год назад +2

    Truly Grateful for this video topic

  • @sanjaykatariya6364
    @sanjaykatariya6364 Год назад

    Thank you so much, your videos help a lot ..

  • @aanuoluwamarcus657
    @aanuoluwamarcus657 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is so enlightening. I now understand creative writing better. Thank you.

  • @SegunJana
    @SegunJana Год назад

    This is amazing, I am a documentary photography and I have been struggling on upgrading with amazing storytelling style to make my works more interesting. I have decided to learn writing and this my first video on tube is motivating that I have made a great choice. I can’t wait

  • @moadeeb2002
    @moadeeb2002 Год назад

    Solidifying my script writing for graphic novels👍.

  • @MrBarcode
    @MrBarcode 3 месяца назад +1

    College in the 2009 to 2010 era I took a class called creative writing. It was all book reports, nothing actually creative about it and Ive been upset about it ever since.

  • @SteveJubs
    @SteveJubs Год назад +1

    Practice over perfection 100%

  • @hinanaqvi9075
    @hinanaqvi9075 Год назад +1

    very informative

  • @NeoPokebonz
    @NeoPokebonz Год назад +1

    Highly appreciate that last tip. I'll have to beat that lesson into my head.

    • @jackhaggerty1066
      @jackhaggerty1066 Год назад

      Do not be held back by an unattainable standard of perfection : Shaelin's advice is sound as ever.
      What's exciting is that you can read perfection and learn from it, improving your skills all the time.
      Whether you write stories, novels, plays or even narrative nonfiction read *The Art of Dramatic Writing* by Lajos Egri
      In Chapter 5 he quotes a scene from Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in which 'three fully rounded characters stand before us' so distinctly.
      But it is *a unity of opposites* because these fully imagined characters each have very strong convictions.
      'No playwright can line up such people - all of them so utterly different - without a well-defined premise,' writes Egri.
      *Hedda despises Tesman and everything he stands for. She is unrelenting. Can she corrupt him - the soul of purity & scrupulous honesty ?*

  • @aydinrose7423
    @aydinrose7423 Год назад

    This video is so helpful😊

  • @lakeshagadson357
    @lakeshagadson357 Год назад

    Creative writing ✏️ is something I would relate to

  • @PhoenixCrown
    @PhoenixCrown Год назад

    Thanks for a great video! I jumped right into a high fantasy series a few years ago, and it's been a fun learning ground =)

    • @meenusingh3645
      @meenusingh3645 Год назад

      Which series ? Can you please tell me here ? Would love to give it a shot

  • @Celtic_Chronicle
    @Celtic_Chronicle 7 месяцев назад +1

    Just to practice my writing skills, I'll leave a comment. There ya go.

  • @Pinero1999
    @Pinero1999 6 месяцев назад

    It's one thing to be ..half hypnotized in the classTOMB, It's a different stroke.. of luck .. building foundations from scratch..good job on this..and the channel ...You're going places... Like a stewardess...

  • @williss1192
    @williss1192 5 месяцев назад

    It's the basic stuff but good to review! I force myself to leave my comfort zone and write things I'm not used to. Like about monsters, ect

  • @BeaufortRyan
    @BeaufortRyan Год назад +2

    I do write books inspired by my own life, but more in the fantasy genre. For example, I self-published my first book I wrote was inspired by my severe brain injury.

  • @Doubleaa500
    @Doubleaa500 Год назад

    I don't think there are any limits to creative writing, but the understanding of them can help to make complex things more readable to others who aren't at that level yet. But being able to write so complex allows others to have courage to write that way because a lot of people I know are afraid their writing won't be understood, but there are writers who will understand and readers who will love the complex weaving of your story!!

  • @Ayok09
    @Ayok09 4 месяца назад

    ❤❤

  • @victoriamiranda1177
    @victoriamiranda1177 8 месяцев назад

    It was a great explained! Could you please talk about the best places to study crrative writting?

  • @mariarivera-ri2rx
    @mariarivera-ri2rx 6 месяцев назад

    2024🎉

  • @bindu492
    @bindu492 Год назад

    What means 'incorporating the sentense " ........" ' please answer ma ,thanks

  • @jackhaggerty1066
    @jackhaggerty1066 Год назад +1

    St Augustine said he knew what time was but he did not think he was able to define it in language.
    We know what creativity is when we hear Lang Lang playing Fur Elise (RUclips) but no music scholar can define Beethoven's genius.
    John Updike learned to write from reading Henry Green; from Green he learned how to play language as young Lang played his Steinway.
    A teenage girl in Naples was haunted by a sentence in Madame Bovary where Emma Bovary studies her own child with cold eyes :
    *C'est une chose etrange comme cette enfant est laide !* ( It's strange how ugly this child is ! )
    Feeling unattractive and unanchored, the Italian teenager read Flaubert's novel as if being struck by blows; the bruises never faded.
    See *Frantumaglia - A Writer's Journey* by Elena Ferrante (translator Ann Goldstein) published by Europa 2016.

    • @jackhaggerty1066
      @jackhaggerty1066 Год назад

      *Light the Dark - Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process* edited by Joe Fassler. Penguin 2017.
      Forty-six writers ... Marilynne Robinson, Yiyun Li, Emma Donoghue, Claire Messud, Amy Tan, Mary Gaitskill, Hanya Yanagihara,
      Elizabeth Gilbert, Roxane Gay, Edwidge Danticat, Jonathan Franzen, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Lethem, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Aimee Bender ...

  • @Luturol
    @Luturol Год назад

    presente

  • @joedent3323
    @joedent3323 Год назад

    Where can I buy your books, Shaelyn? I have tried over the last year, but cannot get them 😢 im in the UK.

    • @angelaking9619
      @angelaking9619 Год назад

      Look in the description of one of Shaelin's videos on Shaelin Writes personal youtube channel. She has a bunch of links to her published short stories.

  • @u_t_d_s_h-1_a
    @u_t_d_s_h-1_a Год назад +1

    Writing expressively to entertain, inform, perhaps educate.

  • @PeterMacansky
    @PeterMacansky 10 месяцев назад

  • @lakeshagadson357
    @lakeshagadson357 Год назад

    I would rather do poetry and write in my diary or journal more than storytelling

  • @kakandemushine9897
    @kakandemushine9897 13 дней назад

    legit....

  • @mariarivera-ri2rx
    @mariarivera-ri2rx 6 месяцев назад

    2024

  • @Bellaismycat675
    @Bellaismycat675 Месяц назад

    Legends who are watching the day before the exam😂👇💀🤣

  • @citrocar1028
    @citrocar1028 25 дней назад

    It's okay, yet I found it lacked depth. Floated only on the surface...

  • @JamielCelestine
    @JamielCelestine Месяц назад

    Are you a male?

  • @Awholekit
    @Awholekit 4 месяца назад

    🎭 Nice Words, Can we get a excited video about physical input arrangements for a fully filled theatrical production. 🖤 💛 🤍