Creative Essay

A way I express my creative side is through my writing. When I’m writing I’m the one in charge. There is no one telling me what to write or how to write. There is no rules to create boundaries for how I should so I’m able to do this as freely as possible. I used to have an account where I was able to write as much as I want and have the stories I wrote open to the public. The first story I made public was just for my amusement but I saw that it had positive comments which led me to release the…

Hi, I'm Chris and I've been a long time reader of Bored Panda and I thought I'd share some of my illustrations. Just like most creatives, I've been drawing since I was young, they weren't great but I was proud of them...okay that is not 100% the truth, I am embarassed by some of the drawings that I drew and gave to my friends back in high school (here's hoping that they threw them away ha!) but luckily I've improved, hopefully. I'm also mostly self taught, I did have a 1 semester stint at my…

In “The Creative Class” from the Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (2004), Richard Florida who is the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, gave the reader the idea about new socio-economic class which create ideas and alteration rather than products and is the driving force. In this article, Florida also mentioned about two main layers of creative class including Super-Creative Class and Creative Professionals. This two main…

Advanced Creative Nonfiction, the subject matter is expected and concerned with reaching beyond what some might only see as simple, ugly, or undesirable. The specificity of your intention in examining Clarion and its culture is articulated well and with confidence. I think your plan on having the narrative told out of chronological order, showcasing scenes of the past, present, and eventually one in the future is a wonderful creative choice for this kind of nonfiction piece. The creative…

After finishing my AA in Communications, I will be attending the University of Iowa to pursue a Bachelors in English, with a focus on Creative Writing. I acknowledge that choosing creative writing as a career path is risky, not everyone can write the great American novel. However, choosing English is a risk I am willing to take. I have an entire world of ideas and useable plot locked inside my head and scribbled across countless pieces of scrap paper and old notebooks. I have many great and…

this assignment. However, throughout the unit and with the guidance of numerous effective exercises I narrowed down my topics and instantly started to write. However, as I wrote my creative nonfiction, my writing appeared quite dull with few images and details describing the setting. Consequently, as I revised my creative nonfiction, I started to add numerous details and images, however, my paragraphs began to become extremely lengthy. Furthermore, my paper lacked the suspense and build it…

Justification Essay The essay that I have chosen to feature in my creative writing portfolio, is entitled The Ghost Rider. The Ghost Rider will always have a special place in my heart, because of the people that I have met, and the turmoil that I have survived. In 2011 I experienced the largest fears that I could have ever dreamed of. I lost my place to live in Tulsa Oklahoma. I became one of those statistics that you hear so often in the National News. During this time of my life, I was…

Purpose Economy vs. Creative Economy Aaron Hurst describes the fourth economic stage as the purpose economy (following the knowledge economy). As humans, we have a fear of not mattering. Because of this, Hurst predicts our next economic era will be centered around our individual quest for purpose. Each of the previous economies have made mankind ‘faster, stronger, smarter,’ but now mankind is turning back to a more ‘human’ way of doing things. Purpose is a choice, according to Hurst, which…

I remember starting this creative writing class thinking I didn’t have any story to tell or share and wondered how I was going to pass the class, since I knew what I was getting myself into. I actually just hoped for the best. As class progressed and we read Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg book, I was hooked. It was such a magical book. Everytime I opened it, I was transported into a coveted world of writers, full with secrets only writers know and I felt welcomed to know those…

I remember growing up and thinking there would be flying cars and talking robots by the 2010’s. Although we’ve got robot mops and vacuums, it’s not exactly what I expected. In the book, The Rise of the Creative Class, the author Richard Florida intertwines that idea of expecting more technological advances to occur throughout the years. He starts of his book with the analogy of a time travelling man from the 1950’s who visits the 1900’s, and then our present era. We learn from this analogy that…