This is not just an introduction, rather it is a propelling force that fans the dying embers into fire. Creative writing is not a done deal, rather it is a process. It is never a fixated hegemonic discourse but a dynamic transition across ages. There is a vacuum somewhere that I need clarity. Does being creative means being critical? In other words, is creativity synonymous to criticality? I consider them intersectional. But a more superior explanation from Professor will help. This is mind blowing and insightful. I appreciate this slice of intelligence, sir. Sunday-Caleb Akingboye
Thank you so much for your kind words. I think we'll need to understand that creative writing, as an integral aspect of socio-cultural or human expression, is a product of certain clear or unclear origins of impulse. Impulse is necessarily a trigger that blows up some accumulating or climactic content of experience provocative enough to warrant "nuanced testimony" through the imaginative act of writing. In this very rather surreal context of its emergence, we may say that creative writing responds to something within the writer, resulting in a "purgation" of their erstwhile "repressed" feelings. This may be a playout of intra-personal emotion peculiar to their private world, or it could be a critical expression in conversation with the larger domain of society and its often complex frameworks of inclusion and exclusion. In this regard, creative writing could be "critical writing!" This peculiarly seems to be the life-stream of most "counter-writings" engaging social, ideological or political phenomena at odds with their oppositional ways of viewing things or the world.
There is something magical about the progression of literature as we know it. Kudos, Sir.
This is not just an introduction, rather it is a propelling force that fans the dying embers into fire.
Creative writing is not a done deal, rather it is a process. It is never a fixated hegemonic discourse but a dynamic transition across ages.
There is a vacuum somewhere that I need clarity. Does being creative means being critical? In other words, is creativity synonymous to criticality? I consider them intersectional. But a more superior explanation from Professor will help.
This is mind blowing and insightful. I appreciate this slice of intelligence, sir.
Sunday-Caleb Akingboye
Thank you so much for your kind words.
I think we'll need to understand that creative writing, as an integral aspect of socio-cultural or human expression, is a product of certain clear or unclear origins of impulse. Impulse is necessarily a trigger that blows up some accumulating or climactic content of experience provocative enough to warrant "nuanced testimony" through the imaginative act of writing. In this very rather surreal context of its emergence, we may say that creative writing responds to something within the writer, resulting in a "purgation" of their erstwhile "repressed" feelings. This may be a playout of intra-personal emotion peculiar to their private world, or it could be a critical expression in conversation with the larger domain of society and its often complex frameworks of inclusion and exclusion. In this regard, creative writing could be "critical writing!" This peculiarly seems to be the life-stream of most "counter-writings" engaging social, ideological or political phenomena at odds with their oppositional ways of viewing things or the world.