ABSTRACT

The influences on and in creative writer's creative writing are as many and as varied as there are human lives, cultural conditions and historic moments. Influences in and on creative writing happen in a way that creative writers' actions are a reflection of their thinking and feeling but that does not manifest itself in a way that can be reached by simply analyzing textual evidence. A lack of time is frequently quoted as a reason to not complete some creative writing. Living or working in a place or places likewise brings to creative writing the socio-economic, daily life patterns, rituals of relationships and human movement, even the impactful nature of climatic and geographic conditions that are embodied in that environment. The models influencing your creative writing, metaphoric or literal, reveal the ways creative writer conceptualize the creation of an entire work, or the writing of a line or a sentence or a phrase.