ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 provides some basic understandings of what constitutes good creative writing and what literary practices might be useful for those who wish to implement the methods described in the book. The intent of the chapter is not to provide a writing primer for given research models, but to encourage the use of the literary as a tactic in creative qualitative research. The chapter pulls across the many readily available discussions of creative writing to present a general summary of literary norms that hold across genre and aesthetic preferences. The primary argument of the chapter is that creative researchers embrace expressive language and structures to pull readers into the world they are creating. They write to engage, to capture the hearts and minds of their readers. The chapter finishes with a series of prompts, organized around content (what?) and structure (how?), designed to develop literary writing skills.
