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Creative Writing: Techniques for Generating Ideas and Developing Essays

Learn various strategies like brainstorming, freewriting, and outlining to unlock your creativity and produce compelling essays. Experiment with different methods and discover what works best for you in the writing process.

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Creative Writing: Techniques for Generating Ideas and Developing Essays

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  1. Invention Techniques

  2. Invention or Prewriting • There are many strategies for coming up with ideas and developing essays. • You should • try the suggested techniques; • develop your own strategies and find what works for you; • recognize the process may be a little different for each paper.

  3. Invention Techniques • Brainstorming: alone or in groups • Freewriting: writing without stopping • Reading and discussing: sharing ideas • Clustering: developing related ideas • Questioning: asking and answering questions • Outlining: making a formal list of topics and subtopics • Starting with Contexts and Rhetorical Situation: Aristotle’s Topoi, playing a role, writing for work, etc. • Using Tagmemics: employing a formal linguistic tool

  4. Freewriting • Freewriting--designed to “free up” your thinking so you can generate ideas first without self-editing. • Write without stopping. Start with a topic or just write about anything that comes to mind. • Don’t worry about grammar, spelling, etc. • Keep writing for ten minutes or more. • Find an interesting idea or sentence in your text and circle it. • Write that on the top of a new page and start another freewriting (looping).

  5. Tagmemics • Three ways of looking at a topic: • As a PARTICLE (the thing itself) • As a WAVE (changes over in time) • As part of a FIELD (in context, in relationship to other things)

  6. Tagmemics:Particle • Static View • Describe the topic (person, place, or thing) in detail, with all its parts. • Consider its structure and uses. • Consider how you think and feel about it now.

  7. Tagmemics:Wave • Dynamic--Changes over time. • Consider your topic in the past. • Consider its future. • Consider your changing perspective, your view in the past. • Consider your possible view in the future.

  8. Tagmemics:Field • Contexts and Relationships • Compare and contrast: Think of your topic in relationship to others like and unlike it. • Classify it. • Find an analogy or metaphor for it.

  9. Asking Questions • Who? • What? • When? • Where? • Why? • How?

  10. Rhetorical Situation • Play a Role • Solve a problem • Define your purpose • Analyze your topic • Analyze your audience

  11. Finding a Focus • Answer a specific question to form a thesis. For example, why do young people join gangs? • Your thesis will be an answer to that question: “Young people join gangs because….” • Nutshelling: state your thesis in one sentence. What are you trying to do or prove?

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