creative writing tips 2
Creative Writing Tips
1. What ideas about Identity are you going to convey in your creative?
First of all, let’s start with thinking about Identity ideas, rather than the creative piece itself. You should choose 2-3 ideas that you think you want to write about or that you find the most interesting.
If you’re unsure about what ideas about Identity there are – just think about the ones in your essay! It could be things like:
•Belonging and identity: belonging gives us a sense of identity.
•Identity and conformity: identity depends on us conforming to the group/society.
•Identifying with people, a place, and culture
•Identity and choice: we have control over how we identify ourselves
You can then think about how these ideas relate to your character:
•Will your character gain a sense of identity through belonging in the story?
•Will your character struggle to discover, recognise, and change their identity because they refuse to conform?
•Will your character feel a strong sense or understanding about their identity because of a connection to a particular place?
•Will culture affect identity?
•Will your character choose to alter their identity?
•Will your character find themselves forced to shape their identity in a particular way?
As you can see, there is a lot of potential here for what could happen and how your character could demonstrate ideas about Identity!
2. What is going to be the premise of your creative?
By “premise”, I mean….what is the basic background or situation that the story will occur in?
The premise is very important to your creative, because that is what will set your creative apart from others!
Think simply about WHO and WHERE. There is usually no need to discuss WHEN, as it is too difficult/confusing to write about another time (past/future) in a short creative piece.
Anyway, here are 3 basic examples:
•A migrant family arriving in Australia. (You can vary this up by having refugees or illegal migrants instead. Or using another country besides
1. What ideas about Identity are you going to convey in your creative?
First of all, let’s start with thinking about Identity ideas, rather than the creative piece itself. You should choose 2-3 ideas that you think you want to write about or that you find the most interesting.
If you’re unsure about what ideas about Identity there are – just think about the ones in your essay! It could be things like:
•Belonging and identity: belonging gives us a sense of identity.
•Identity and conformity: identity depends on us conforming to the group/society.
•Identifying with people, a place, and culture
•Identity and choice: we have control over how we identify ourselves
You can then think about how these ideas relate to your character:
•Will your character gain a sense of identity through belonging in the story?
•Will your character struggle to discover, recognise, and change their identity because they refuse to conform?
•Will your character feel a strong sense or understanding about their identity because of a connection to a particular place?
•Will culture affect identity?
•Will your character choose to alter their identity?
•Will your character find themselves forced to shape their identity in a particular way?
As you can see, there is a lot of potential here for what could happen and how your character could demonstrate ideas about Identity!
2. What is going to be the premise of your creative?
By “premise”, I mean….what is the basic background or situation that the story will occur in?
The premise is very important to your creative, because that is what will set your creative apart from others!
Think simply about WHO and WHERE. There is usually no need to discuss WHEN, as it is too difficult/confusing to write about another time (past/future) in a short creative piece.
Anyway, here are 3 basic examples:
•A migrant family arriving in Australia. (You can vary this up by having refugees or illegal migrants instead. Or using another country besides