What is a Creative Writer?

Throughout the history of literature, writers have always been distinctive individuals who use writing for healthy catharsis, who use writing to record, objectively or emotionally, precise accounts of society’s history, who use writing to express the societal experiences and tendencies of their time, who use writing to define abstract, not necessarily distant, human characteristics that each individual undergoes in an explicit and varied manner, and who uses writing to articulate fantastical tales based in reality, history, fantasy, space, or wherever the writer wants his grand tale to be set. Writers compose their works for any combination of the aforementioned causes to write; not all of these natures of writers, however, are collected in the precious and honored title of the creative writer, for creative writers are not always eloquent, academic writers who write for the sole purpose of spreading their academic conclusions on society, but creative writers are those who write for the purposes of articulating their unique creativity through the power of the pen, of constructing worlds that people can enter only in the unrestricted regions of the mind, and of expressing the emotions that reside in the soul of the writer.

Society presents itself with a stereotype of creative writers, which defines them as emotional citizens who waste their time staring at the sky and imagining that a battle between incoming space invaders and the final resistance of planet earth, and who waste their time in fantastical worlds, which they have created, just for the purpose of having tea with a hare, a dormouse, and a madman. Creative writers are not solitarily emotional people who express their inner feeling just for the sole purpose of publically displaying their emotions in the form of poems and prose, but they are people who have to express such an emotion. Creative writers share these emotions, fictional experiences, and fantastical worlds because if they repress the emotions they will not be able to function as person, for they are individuals with the ability to find the deepest philosophical interpretation of a flower budding for the new life of the spring.

A writer is someone with an extensive knowledge of the style, syntax, and diction of their language, the ability not to write in the affectation that an elementary student uses once he has learned a new vocabulary word, and the experience needed to understand the academic field they are writing about in their works; yet, these writers are not necessarily not creative. These academic writers are needed to record the findings of a society in the fields of science, mathematics, sociology, psychology, and history; however, these writers are not the only type of writers needed by society. Creative writers are those who find the extraordinary in ordinary, who find the rational in irrational, who find the sense in nonsense; and in addition, they are able to record their findings in prose and in poetry. It is one thing to write with eloquence about ordinary and rational sense that man has developed over centuries of evolution. It is another thing to write with the same eloquence but with the creativity required to write about the extraordinary, irrational, and nonsensical thoughts of the creative writer.