Wednesday, April 24, 2013

How to write with originality and creativity

By Dennis Mellersh

One of the surest ways to ensure that you write without originality and creativity is to imitate your favorite writer(s).

For the new writer, such imitation is usually not done consciously but happens because of admiration and fascination with another writer’s ideas and their way of handling language in their work.
 
In biographical material about famous and successful writers and authors such as novelists, short story writers, and poets, we will often find admissions by those writers that they went through a period in their work where they were imitating writers they admired.
 
Once they dropped imitation, or being derivative, they found their own voice, their writing ceased to be derivative, and it became more original and creative.
 
If you do not think you are particularly original or creative, remember this:
  • You are a unique being
  • You are an original
  • You are creative (whether you realize it or not)
And no-one looks at the world and reacts to it exactly the same way you do.
 
So, do the rest of us a favor, and write in a way that allows us to hear your voice, your uniqueness, your creativity, and your originality.
 
Not somebody else’s.

  

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