Creative Essay

writers will understand the need to perfect, sharpen; to coalesce life down into crystalline structures. I do not believe that my passion for writing is a singular, God-given gift. It developed ever since I was a child. When I was little, I was always creative and hands-on. I dedicated my time to making my own creations, drawing, and writing and illustrating little booklets. Writing was always enjoyable to me, it was a beautiful fantasy. I have always adored creating imperfect perfection out of…

The creative process, underlying all parts of the artistic career of Baz Luhrmann, worldly renowned Australian director, has roots in various creative theories, but can be found most similar to the one recognized by the theorist and artist David Usher. For the last two decades, the few works produced by Baz Luhrmann have shocked and at the same time captured audiences with their pure, different and untypical view of the cinema (from Strictly Ballroom (1992) to Great Gatsby (2013)), therefore…

aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This novel is an example of creative nonfiction. Creative Nonfiction are true stories that are well told. The “creative” aspect refers to the literary craft of the piece, and the “nonfiction” refers to piece being factual. Zeitoun is the perfect example of this genre because it written from the perspective of Kathy and Abdulrahman Zeitoun, and their accounts of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Creative nonfiction is a growing genre and is used in writings…

Throughout the first semester of College Composition, I wrestled with three essays, all differing in format and content. The first was a narrative that reflected our educational experience. After this came an analysis of a visual text, followed by a research paper. The narrative was the easiest to write; however, I acquired important skills for writing the other two, which were in a less familiar format. With the three essays, I learned about my own writing skills and habits concerning…

Classic literature is the collection novels and stories that stand the test of time. They were considered groundbreaking in their release, continue to be vastly praised as time carries on and as the result of such hype, linger in our lives in the form of high school book reports. Students happily complain about the apparently boring classical literature, asking why it’s necessary and trying to find a way around reading something older than themselves. The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury…

2.4. Improvisation and creativity According to Lin (2011, as cited in Lehtonen et al., 2016) creative teaching is a creative, innovative and imaginative approach to teaching English. Creative pedagogy involving creative teaching, teaching for creativity and creative learning. Sawyer (2004, 2006, as cited in Lehtonen, et al. 2016) stressed the creative teacher’s ability to use improvisational principles directly. In teaching creatively, a teacher should employ the rules of improvisation…

When I think about literacy I think of two different parts, reading and writing. Both of which I have had different experiences of. Reflecting off my past experience reading was the more challenging one out of the two. I have always enjoyed writing and learning how to express myself on paper. For those reasons, I will be exploring both of these literacies separately. Ten years ago, me being around eight years old, sitting in a reading circle with my fellow classmates. It comes to be my turn to…

How important is writing to you? Without it, would you be able to form your thoughts to get your point across? Writing is a vital good that we use across the world in order to communicate with others on a day to day basis. An essential that allows us to form share and reproduce information that we feel needs to be out there. Writing to me, is seen as an art form. Some of us use to express ourselves to others, some of us use it to notify people all across the world of what's happening in our…

The Robinson’s finally ask me to babysit for them again! I’m literally ecstatic about this, I haven’t seen little Johnny or Tessa in 4 whole months! Tessa is a cute, 6 year old, brunette munchkin. She wears these really adorable glasses that wrap around her head so they don’t fall off! Her deep blue eyes always brighten my day.Then there’s Johnny, Tessa’s twin brother. Johnny is the absolute sweetest gentleman I know. He always walks me to his bedroom when I, I mean he escorts me to his room for…

Long ago, during the period of the fourteenth century, an empire emerged within Northeast Asia. The empire was known as: the Mongol Empire. The Mongol Empire had created the world’s largest empire, and they were set out to dominate the entire world. However, the world was oblivious to the fact that those Mongols were far more different compared to themselves. They were ghosts. Poltergeists, to be distinctly specific. It’s much too late now to stop them. Like every other unknown creature and…