The CHIEF March 2024

Creative Writing By: Jack Demopoulos

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature. Some examples of creative writing include “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Creative writing dives into a person's imagination and has them create anything their mind comes up with. Whether a dystopian society such as The Hunger Games or based in a futuristic bare wasteland such as “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” Harlan Ellison, each one of these works falls under creative writing. Here is a personal example:

While the above is a very short piece of creative writing, writing like this truly makes people wonder: What is going on for the restaurant to be abandoned? Why is he being looked at by multiple motionless people at once? Overall, creative writing makes readers think and crave more fragments of the author’s imagination.