ABSTRACT

Writing, clearly done only by human beings (other creatures are not commonly known to write), draws on what it is to be human. Therefore, creative writing did not follow the invention of writing. It did not emerge after writing came into being – in any culture. Yet almost without question, creative writing has to date been discussed critically as a sequential sub-set of writing. There is perhaps no more clear a signpost to the grandiose than to explore creative writing in terms of the origin and success of writing itself. This might be called as a Big Bang Theory of Creative Writing. It is to say that, on average, creative writing generally will involve and produce exactly those kinds of things: inventive techniques, aesthetically alert composition and fertile language use. Creative writing engages our human feelings and emotions as well as our intellects. Creative writing is the result of dynamism between the imagination and the intellect.