CREATIVE WRITING COURSE #6 AUTHENTICITY OF CREATIVE IMPULSE
We should ensure that our impulse creative writing is authentic. Assuming that this impulse has troubled you on the emotional plane, as it often does, the question you should ask, is charming and overwhelming as it may have been at that moment, was it not rather a transient and hence a superficial motion? As an emotional person in neighbourhood burst into tears at the sight of a puppy in distress or a bride leaving her mother’s home? Could it have happened that you were taken in by the setting or the atmosphere? In a romantic atmosphere of moon and far away music and you, you thought the dialogue of an old couple particularly cute and you thought you could write a poem on the theme of ‘Love at Night’. Or while passing through a slum you were walking by the sight of a young, good looking mother being harassed by a brood of unkempt and pot bellied children and you get idea to write a story on the theme of ‘Flowers in The Slum’ It may well be that you can write a powerful content on eit...