Creative writing

Creative writing

Creative writing is a term for writing approaches that assume that writing is a creative-linguistic process to which every person can be methodically guided. Creative writing thus transcends classic writing lessons by focusing on the process of writing itself and "being trained through associative, creative and reworking methods. A unified description of what constitutes creative writing can hardly be given, because the approaches are very different in their fundamentals, methods and goals.
concepts
In creative writing, some following concepts can be distinguished:

Play with the language

Writing games are a method of reducing the often unwieldy respect for the written word. Especially in writing workshops, but also in school writing games are often introductory exercises in more complex methods of creative writing. Write games are used in almost all concepts in different forms. They help to find a pleasurable access to the linguistic expression and to one's own language. Nevertheless, the exclusive use of writing games soon reaches its limits. As a result, conceptions that are based solely on language games are barely used today. They are usually integrated in further concepts.

Therapy and autobiographical self-reflection

Writing processes often have a therapeutic dimension: own experiences and experiences, fears and wishes are taken up and shaped in writing. Regular writing experience can lead to discoveries about unconscious inclinations and desires, because the writing process leads time and time again to similar topics, key words and further thoughts.
This phenomenon can be used therapeutically. Like self-evident speech in therapy, writing is a form of self-expression in which the writer not only acts, but at the same time looks at the result of his actions. Although most writing processes can be viewed in this perspective, it is advisable to have the conscious therapeutic use of creative writing methods professionally accompanied by a poetry and writing therapist.
An easy way to think about writing is to keep a journal or (in limited time periods) a journal - regardless of which topics - again and again to work with literary forms.The conscious retention of life memory and writing memoirs is also part of this. Numerous fictional texts contain autobiographical traces, which one can become aware of when dealing with one's own texts.

Scenic writing

Scenic writing is the writing of drama texts (plays) and scripts (film and television). The writing of dialogues, scenes and scene sequences requires, in contrast to the fiction writing special skills. Which also includes:the adherence to the action logic maintaining the tension over the entire piece,the characterization of the figures solely through their actions and speeches,
the creation of realistic dialogues,the writing of stage directions,writing scenes according to specific specifications (usually determined by the format) and the design of a shapely script.
Scenic writing has become a field of activity with a great need for professional writers, in particular as a result of the increased production of television films and television series by private television stations. The resulting professional image of the scriptwriter was taken into account in vocational training by the establishment of study programs for scenic writing at various universities.