Creative Writing

Fiction

   Imagined facts about the real world


Elements of Fiction

  Character

    Characterization

      Description of personality or appearance of characters

    Kinds/Types of Characters

Dynamic Character


Plot Character

No character development

Round Character

Complex Characters

Static Character

Personality does not falter even after hardships


  Plot

   Essential Parts of a Plot using Freytag's Pyramid

Exposition

Introduction of the Characters

Rising Action

Conflict arises

Climax

Most interesting part of the story

Falling Action

Problems get resolved

Resolution

Ending

    Types of Plot

  • Conventional Plot - Freytag’s Pyramid

  • Episodic Plot - Series

  • Flashback - Events happening in the past

  • In Media Res - Starting the story in the middle


Point of views

  First Person

  Second Person

  Third Person

  • Limited Omniscient POV - 1 character

  • Omniscient POV - All characters

  • Objective - not narrating the thoughts and feelings of the characters


Setting

  • Place

  • Time

  • Weather condition

  • Social condition - speech, clothing, mannerisms, norms

  • Mood or Atmosphere


Conflict

    Makes the plot move

  Types

  • Internal conflict - struggle with self

  • External conflict - struggle outside of self

  Kinds


Man vs


Man

Struggle with another character

Circumstances

Circumstances of life ex. poverty

Nature

Force of nature ex. typhoons

Society

Ex. Discrimination and oppression

Self

Internal conflict

Supernatural

Fighting something “abnormal”

Fate

Against destiny

Technology

Machines


Theme

    Central idea or message


Various Modes of Fiction

  • Figures of Speech

  • Other literary Devices

Foreshadowing

Flashback

Juxtaposition - 2 opposite events

Sensory imagery

Tone - What author wants to show

Mood - feeling of the reader

Symbolism and Motif

  • Description - details about place

  • Action 

  • Dialogue

  • Thoughts

  • Exposition