How To Write A Creative Writing Story

This can be hard at first, but the more you do it, the more your momentum builds, and the easier it becomes.

Find a style and tone that reflects the most authentic version of yourself, even when you’re writing fictional characters and events.

It’s one of the most important steps in creating your own world with your writing. We love the romantic notion that writers produce books in a creative frenzy after being struck by a sudden flash of brilliance.

She is the author of 'Writing & Selling Thriller Screenplays' for Kamera Books' Creative Essentials range and its follow ups on 'Drama Screenplays' and 'Diverse Characters'.

Christopher Taylor is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Austin Community College in Texas.

However you relate to it, creative writing can be an enjoyable, rewarding craft. Whether creative writing falls outside of your comfort zone, or you aren’t sure how to get started, or you’re just working through a nasty case of writer’s block, there are plenty of things you can do to improve your craft. Sure, at any time you could sit down and, having never read a poem, write a book of poems, or having never read a novel, write your own out of thin air, but here’s the thing: they would probably be awful.

If you want to be a great writer, or even just a marginally good writer, you have to read.

She is the author of 'Writing & Selling Thriller Screenplays' for Kamera Books' Creative Essentials range and its follow ups on 'Drama Screenplays' and 'Diverse Characters'.

Lucy is the producer of two Brit Thrillers as well as the script editor and advisor on numerous other features and shorts.

When you have a clear idea of what you want to achieve with your piece, the writing itself will come more easily. Hay is an author, script editor and blogger who helps other writers through writing workshops, courses, and her blog Bang2Write.

Lucy is the producer of two Brit Thrillers as well as the script editor and advisor on numerous other features and shorts.