ABSTRACT
Creative writing involves synapses, the sparking of connections, communication between the creative and the intellectual, between thinking, feeling and acting, between the imagination and the inscribing. Creative writing involves a structured and ordered use of a shared and commonly understood language and the inscribing of that language into written words. It is distinctive from other kinds of writing in that the original, the new and the inventive are heightened. To critically approach creative writing involves considering its practices and outcomes from the point of view of the imaginative and of the intellectual, and its nature from the point of view of the creating, as well as from the point of view of what is ultimately created. Creative writers seek to 'bring something into being' for a variety of reasons. Some of the outcomes will be along the way to a final iteration of a work or works of creative writing.
