Introduction to General Principal of Writing 2
Summary
TLDRThe video script delves into the intricacies of the creative writing course, emphasizing the gradual process of becoming a proficient writer. It highlights the importance of content, form, structure, and style in writing, and the need for natural, spontaneous expression of powerful emotions. The speaker urges students to be patient, practice regularly, and draw from a wide range of reading to enhance their writing skills. The script also stresses the significance of developing a personal writing style and maintaining a diary to capture and reflect on daily experiences and emotions.
Takeaways
- 📘 The course aims to develop proficiency in creative writing and artistic expression, emphasizing the gradual process of becoming a good writer.
- 🎨 Writing is portrayed as a creative expression that can be difficult to master due to the need for acquiring specific skills.
- 🌱 The course will guide students through the basics of writing, including content development, narrative form, structure, and style.
- 💡 It is hoped that after the course, students will gain insight and progressively control their writing to become accomplished writers.
- 💭 Writing should be a natural and spontaneous process, akin to Shakespeare's view of poetry as a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions.
- 🔄 The writing process involves a lot of trial and error, requiring patience and the understanding that it is an ever-growing journey.
- 📚 A good writer must also be a good reader, with extensive reading helping to improve understanding and skill in writing.
- 🧘♂️ Maturity in emotions and feelings is crucial for a writer to understand and express the complexities of human emotions effectively.
- 👂 Being a good listener is important for a writer to think through societal and human experiences, which enriches their writing.
- 🖊️ Developing a personal writing style is encouraged to allow writers to freely express their emotions and ideas without fear.
- 📓 Maintaining a personal diary is recommended to help writers capture and analyze their emotions and ideas over time.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the creative writing course discussed in the script?
-The creative writing course focuses on teaching the general principles of writing, aiming to help students understand the process of creative writing and achieve proficiency in expressing themselves artistically through writing.
Why is writing often considered a difficult task according to the script?
-Writing is considered difficult because it is generally believed that acquiring the necessary skills to be a good writer is challenging, and it requires a creative expression that might not come naturally to everyone.
What are the three fundamental aspects of writing mentioned in the script that a good writer needs to focus on?
-The three fundamental aspects are content, form, and style. These are essential for providing structure and a clear narrative in writing.
How does the script describe the process of writing creatively?
-The script describes creative writing as a spontaneous process, an overflow of powerful emotions that should come naturally and without conscious effort.
What does the script suggest about the relationship between reading and writing?
-The script suggests that a good writer must also be a good reader, as extensive reading helps in understanding different writing styles, widening one's knowledge, and improving one's own writing skills.
Why is patience considered an important quality for a creative writer according to the script?
-Patience is important because creative writing involves a lot of trial and error, and it is a gradual process where a writer evolves over time through observation, experience, and practice.
What role does the writer's perspective play in their creative writing according to the script?
-The writer's perspective is crucial as it allows them to look at things from a unique angle, adding depth and originality to their work, which is essential for capturing the reader's interest.
How does the script emphasize the importance of emotions in creative writing?
-The script emphasizes that emotions play a central role in creative writing, as they are the driving force behind the writer's urge to express and share their feelings and ideas with others.
What advice does the script give for developing one's own writing style?
-The script advises writers to not be afraid of expressing their emotions and feelings in their own unique way, and to explore new themes and ideas, developing a style that is authentic to themselves.
Why does the script recommend maintaining a personal diary for aspiring creative writers?
-Maintaining a personal diary is recommended as it helps writers to record their observations, emotions, and ideas, which can later be revisited and analyzed to improve their writing and explore new perspectives.
What is the script's stance on the necessity of a writer being a good listener?
-The script asserts that being a good listener is essential for a writer as it allows them to understand and empathize with different social, political, and human experiences, which enriches their writing.
Outlines
📘 Introduction to Creative Writing Course
This paragraph introduces the creative writing course as part of a diploma program. It emphasizes the general principles of writing and the journey of creative writing. The instructor discusses the challenges of acquiring writing skills and the course's aim to help students achieve proficiency in writing. The focus is on developing content, form, structure, and style in writing. The paragraph also highlights the importance of writing as a natural and spontaneous process, quoting Shakespeare to illustrate the point. It concludes by discussing the trial and error nature of writing and the necessity of patience for students of creative writing.
🌱 The Evolution of a Writer's Craft
The second paragraph delves into the gradual process of becoming a writer, stressing the importance of observation, experience, and patience. It touches on the unique perspectives that writers develop over time and the reasons why individuals choose to write, often driven by an inner urge to express their observations and emotions. The paragraph also addresses the misconception that one can become a full-time writer and the need for writers to explore their creative potential. It concludes by discussing the importance of guidance in writing and the course's intention to help students unleash their writing potential.
📚 The Importance of Reading and Maturity in Writing
This paragraph highlights the significance of being a good reader for a writer, as extensive reading helps in understanding and improving writing skills. It discusses the maturity of emotions and experiences as crucial for developing complex human emotions in writing. The paragraph also emphasizes the need for a writer to be a good listener, to think through societal and political contexts, and to closely observe human experiences. It concludes by encouraging the development of a personal writing style and the courage to explore new themes and ideas.
🎨 Developing a Unique Writing Style
The fourth paragraph focuses on the importance of developing a unique writing style that reflects individual emotions and experiences. It uses the example of different age groups celebrating birthdays to illustrate how varying life stages can influence the expression of emotions in writing. The paragraph encourages writers to maintain a personal diary to capture daily observations and emotions, which can later be revisited and refined. It also emphasizes the importance of revisiting and refining one's work to improve its depth and appeal to readers.
🗣️ Clarity and Focus in Creative Writing
The final paragraph discusses the need for clarity and precision in creative writing to effectively communicate with readers. It suggests that the process of writing involves reacting to emotions and experiences, which are then documented in a diary. The paragraph concludes by emphasizing the importance of maintaining a diary for capturing and analyzing emotions, which is essential for the creative writing process and for becoming a successful writer.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Creative Writing
💡Proficiency
💡Content
💡Structure
💡Style
💡Trial and Error
💡Patience
💡Perspective
💡Non-fiction
💡Technical Writing
💡Personal Diary
Highlights
Introduction to the creative writing course as part of a diploma in creative writing.
Emphasis on understanding the general principles of writing and the creative process.
The belief that writing is a difficult task due to the perceived difficulty in acquiring necessary skills.
The course aims to help students achieve proficiency in creative writing.
Writing as a creative expression and the importance of artistic expression in the writing process.
The gradual process of evolving as a writer through step-by-step learning.
Fundamentals of writing including content development, narrative form, structure, and style.
The hope that students will gain insight and progressively control their writing to become accomplished writers.
Writing should be a natural and spontaneous process, akin to Shakespeare's view of poetry.
The necessity of patience in the trial and error process of writing.
Writing as an ever-growing process requiring observation, experience, and patience.
The importance of looking at things from different perspectives in creative writing.
The role of inner urge and observation in a writer's decision to write.
The need for writers to explore their power of creation and share their feelings with others.
The psychological process of having an urge to express and share personal feelings and views.
The course design to help students realize their potential as writers and understand the essence of writing.
The distinction between fiction and non-fiction writing, and the importance of content resonating with the central theme.
The necessity for a writer to be a good reader to improve understanding and skill.
The importance of maturity in emotions for understanding and expressing complex human feelings.
Being a good listener as a crucial aspect of a writer's development.
The encouragement for writers to develop their own unique style and not be afraid to express emotions.
The significance of maintaining a personal diary for noting observations, feelings, and ideas.
The importance of revisiting and refining one's work for better understanding and reader engagement.
The need for a writer to communicate effectively, with clarity and precision.
Transcripts
[Music]
hello
Learners uh I am again here to talk to
you about the creative writing course uh
which is a part of the diploma in
creative writing
uh as you all know we've been talking
about the general principles of writing
we've tried to understand what writing
is all about you know how do you how do
you kind of uh embark on the Journey of
writing creatively you know because we
all are going to learn here certain
tenets of creative writing and as you
all know that we've been talking about
again and again that writing is a
creative expression and you know is
often believed to be a difficult task
because it is it is kind of generally
believed that it is difficult for one to
acquire the skills that are needed to be
a good writer now in this course we all
hope that you know you as students get
that proficiency so you know I I would
like suggest that you know we're trying
to achieve that proficiency not only to
write right well but also you know uh
I'm trying to give you the much needed
artistic expression uh that require that
is required you know you you kind of uh
kind of uh should be able should be uh
should achieve the proficiency to write
according to your taste so you know this
is a uh this is a very gradual process
because you evolve in this process so we
kind of will take you step by step we'll
kind of teach teach you and inform you
about the very basic fundamentals uh
that are required to be a writer or that
I should say required in the writing
process uh we need to be talking about
the content so how do you develop the
content what is the form of a written
narrative uh how do you provide a
structure to your writing and also the
style so you know the content the form
the structure and the style that is all
needed to be a good writer it is also
hoped that after reading this entire
course or after you know probably
learning this C course and you know
you've acquired the much needed Insight
uh at some point of time you should be
able to you know uh kind of
progressively control yourself and
become an accomplished writer now that
uh that writing should not be a
conscious process uh what I'm trying to
make you understand is that this writing
should come naturally to you it should
become a spontaneous process you know it
it should be a spontaneous overflow of
your emotions that are very powerful and
and you know as it has always said you
know Shakespeare once said that uh
poetry is the spontaneous overflow of
powerful emotions so I would rather you
know kind of take the quote from him and
say writing creatively is again a
spontaneous process it is a spontaneous
overflow of powerful emotions that you
pen down so it should come cons it
should come naturally to you it should
come spontaneously to you without kind
of without creatively making an effort
without conscious
effort we also need to understand that
writing is a process where a lot of
trial and error takes place you know it
is it is not just you sit down and you
want to pen a certain genre of writing
and it happens no no writing is a
process a lot of trial and lot of Errors
keeps on going so it is
important that as a student of creative
writing you need to have patience
because this is patience is one
important tenet which will teach you you
to be to write creatively so to write
creatively a student needs to invive
patience you know this writing
creatively is again uh you know it is
very much like any other artistic form
of expression be it dance be it drama be
it music and so is writing so the
student learns this through everyday
practice everyday control and lot of
patience to achieve perfection in
writing is is is it is an Ever growing
process so the process continues and it
is a very gradual process you do not
evolve you know you do not become a
writer overnight you have you evolve as
a writer where a lot of observation
experience and then patience all these
things play a vital role now creative
writing it requires patience but also
the writer you know as they go grow
through the years of
experience they learn to look at things
look at facts from a very different
perspective each individual has it has
their own perspective and you try and
look at things from very different
perspectives uh uh you know we must
understand initially we need to
understand why does a writer in the
first place decide to write write so why
do you decide to write or why do you
want to be a author the very
requirement uh to be an author or you
know most writers are always under some
kind of inner urge or some kind of
compulsion to write uh uh you know most
of the time they write what they observe
in the society around them and like all
creative artists uh one cannot believe
somebody to be a fulltime writer because
they need to take some other kind of
professions also so they need time to
explore their truthful power of creation
so that truthful power of creation also
needs time to be you know to to develop
to kind of grow and then then they need
to explore a lot of things because any
writer is again a social human being and
to write to share his feelings with
other others is his inner urge which is
very genuine because they are again
emotional humans so the emotions need to
be uh shared you know they want their
ideas to be heard by others now this is
a general writing process that this is
something what happens in your psyche
you have an urge to express or to share
your feelings with others and these
feelings are your own own individual
emotions and uh desires and you know you
have your own uh point of view your own
want way of telling things
now fine this is your inner urge but you
know how do you write so as a writer you
you require certain kind of guidance
because the works are written Alone by
yourself now we kind of carefully design
this course to help
you to come out with your potential as a
writer you know uh we kind of uh makes
the process make we kind of we trying to
make this process very easy for you so
that you you know you follow certain
Norms you you kind of bring out the best
of your ability and you try to
understand what exactly is writing all
about you know the writing
probably some of you would be wanting to
undertake writing fiction While others
would be wanting to do non-fiction so
non-fiction as I would say is based on
facts and it is very
informative and the plot or the theme
can be a uh it could be curricular theme
or it could be incur but when we talk
about non-fiction creative writing it
flows out of the mind of the writer and
it can be true it can be false you know
it can be based on certain facts facts
it may be a creation of his own
imagination so there are no boundaries
it does not have any bound it does not
bind Itself by any rules or
regulations technical writing can be
taught however but you know the the
fictional and the creative writer he
depends and the outcome of a fictional
and a creative writing depends entirely
on the writer his ability uh to
captivate his readers uh through his
imagination and the text that he writes
cannot be boring and it must you know
kind of force the reader to read the
page after page of his
narrative now what happens is you know I
would like to emphasize uh certain basic
things that a writer must follow uh
probably when you when you are thinking
about the content the content of your
writing must be such that it res
resonates with the central theme of the
fiction you know when you're writing a
fiction the content should somewhere
have some kind of similarity it should
resonate with the central theme of the
fiction for example if the central theme
is love so the predominant emotion Must
Be Love and the other emotions probably
the emotions of hatred uh
jealousy um rivalry cheating you know
they they should be treated as sub
emotions so the content of the writing
must resonate with the central theme of
the fiction and the secondary emotions
can be treated
as sub emotions now a good writer must
also be a good reader because you know
as again and again I've been emphasizing
the fact that a good writer must also be
a good reader he has to observe things
and he has to be very widely read
because you know if the writer reads the
works of other writers
extensively uh he will be able to you
know have a better understanding and he
will also become better in his skill so
extensive reading is definitely uh on
the list you have to follow a a good
schedule of reading things and you
should be widely read because that you
know kind of ENC encompasses uh uh the
Spheres of your knowledge that widens
the Spheres of your knowledge now you
have to kind of whatever you read you
have to imbe that knowledge into your
system because you that is how you
evolve you become mature and it is this
maturity which matters a lot the writer
must allow his you know emotions to
mature
and you know this is how he he he
evolves and this is how he develops his
writing so it is not necessary that the
writer must be old in age but you know
he must be old enough what I'm trying to
say is that his reading his emotions
must be mature enough to understand the
complexities of human Psy so you know it
is very very important it is very very
imperative it is very very needed it is
much needed that the writer must be old
enough in terms of emotions in terms of
feelings which means he should have
evolved his emotions because then only
he will have the capability to
understand the complexities of the human
emotions human feelings and when he is
in a position to understand these
complex human emotions will he be able
to express them in his own
words now aart from being uh you know
mature enough another important thing
that a writer
must understand is he has to be a good
listener because he must think through
the minds of other you know he must be
uh able to Think Through the society he
must be able through the to Think
Through the social political happenings
of his surroundings he should be able to
look at human experiences very closely
you know rather embibe rather share
rather feel those experiences and this
will happen only when the writer is a
good listener so a writer who can who
has you know who who who kind of is very
patient as I've been telling you uh in
in the beginning of this lecture that a
person that somebody who wants to be an
eminent writer has to be very very
patient because you know that is how
your experiences
uh how your how your emotions and other
things evolve and then they help you in
the making of a good writer so the
writer must be a good listener he must
be able to Think Through the society and
he should also be able to look at human
experiences very
closely it is also better that the
writer develops his own style because if
you are able to develop your own style
he must be you know uh he would be like
not afraid he would be very free very he
would dare to try to write new themes
and kind of embark on a New Journey
probably he could take up New U ideas
you know he could take on New Paths that
have not been explored earlier so he
should be somebody Who develops his own
style he should be somebody who's not
scared to write or share his emotions
and see each and every emotion has its
own way of uh expressing uh itself you
know probably a person uh who is very
happy has a way
of expressing their emotions and
feelings entirely different from a
person be so you know each individual
has their own way of writing things each
individual has their own way of
expressing happiness for example uh a
person a child uh a young teen AG girl
probably in her 16 17 or probably in her
early 20 is excited about celebrating a
birthday so if you if you kind of try
and if you are a writer from that age
group probably you will have an entirely
different way of expressing your
happiness entirely different way of
sharing of your emotions your feelings
your excitement but somebody who is
probably at a little later age who I
should say in the in the mid 50s in the
early 50s would have a very subtle way
of expressing their happiness they too
will be celebrating their birthday but
then they will have an entirely
different way of expressing their
happiness an entirely different way of
sharing their emotions so what happens
is you know it is very important that
you should develop your own style and
and you should not be afraid of
expressing your own emotions and your
own feelings the way you feel them you
know there's there there's not not going
to be a similarity in the writings of a
young uh person somebody who is at a
middle who is at a middleaged writer
will kind of share those same emotions
and feelings in a very different Manner
and somebody who has you know kind of
traveled a lot will express it entirely
differently so this is one important
thing uh as I've always been telling you
uh that please maintain a personal diary
because then this is this is something
which is going to help you to take down
notes to take down your feel feelings
and also to you know write down what you
observe during the day during the week
during the month so you know in your
journey of being a writer in your
journey of being a creative writer it it
helps you a lot so maintain your diary
because this not
uh in private helps you you know at
times to explore new themes with with
lot of clarity and lot of meaning and
lot of uh New Perspectives the writer
must also kind of uh keep checking his
ideas keep checking his works so you
know in other words I would say he must
keep revisiting his work and that is how
you make the work better it will become
more and more uh evolved it will thus
give the writing uh a a lot of
understanding a lot of meaning and then
a lot of readership so writing is a
process where you kind of keep doing
things every now and then it is not
something that you sit down one morning
and start Penning down down your
emotions see what happens is you you are
again and again reacting to certain
facts you are again and again reacting
to certain emotions and you know all
these things are being joted down you
you know probably a certain uh fact of
life might instigate a certain emotion
in the morning while looking at the same
FL you might feel uh a very different
emotion in the afternoon or in the late
evening so you probably are a single
individual who reacts differently to a
particular
situation at different times of the day
at different times because you have
different moods you have different
emotions at different times of your life
so so you know probably maintaining that
diary is going to help you evolve as a
writer because then you can count
counter those emotions you can read
those emotions you can analyze those
emotions and whichever suits you best or
whichever suits your writing the best
you can start working on it so you know
because the the the the intense need is
uh of this writing why why why are we
writing we are writing because you have
this intense need need to communicate
with others you know you you want you
kind of want want to communicate with
others you want others to to try and
analyze the emotions that you're pinning
down and this is what is going to make
you creative so please pay attention to
the idea of maintaining a diary and
writing and Penning down your emotions
your feelings your ideas and your
thoughts so these are uh certain few
important things which are going to help
help you in your journey to be a
creative
writer please pay attention to all of
them because what we are going to talk
about in the coming uh sessions or in
the coming uh videos is that while while
you want to communicate with others it
also becomes important that you need to
be focused there has to be a lot of
clarity and also lot of precision in
what you are conveying so all these
things when taken together in into
consideration helps you become a
creative writer and this is what we are
going to do in this course of creative
writing good luck
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