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Play The Role When You Write

Writing is one of the most passionate things to do. It sets imagination free, it allows you to live in different situations at the same time, but in order to really experience writing we must play the roles we are trying to describe. This kind of writing is better known as "creative writing". this kind of writing requires a new way of thinking because it is a process that is always changing, never finished, the posibilities here are infinites, and here is where our imagination plays and important role because for it there are not limits either. so imagination comes to be a really important to when we do creative writing.

Mostly, what we look for, when we do creative writing is to experience new emotions, and then you make your readers experience those emotions.  Creative writing comes out when you use your imagination to see things and situations from different points of view, it is, when you submerge into your characters, into the situations and you get to feel what they feel, you get to experience what they experience. in brief,  creative writing is a writing process  that comes from the inside of the situation or from the inside of the character you are trying to create. 

 Short example of creative writing:

Centipedes on action

Days had passed, I haven’t had eaten, I was extremely hungry, had been trying to find food in my territory, I had wavy in all directions, but I haven’t found anything. I refused to leave that territory but the hunger was becoming so intense that I had no alternative I had to leave. I didn’t want to leave that territory because I was the leader; I had made prevail my big pincers, with them I sent away the leader that used to live there. A short time after I had colonized the zone, I began noticing that it was harder to me to find food and females which my territory was running out of, too. 

Once I decided to leave the zone I began to use my instincts in order to take the best path. the path I took was a little steep but I chose it because it was wet, besides I love that type of mud, its brown color was so attractive to me, moreover I knew that to my preys it was also attractive, for that reason I continued waving my body through that territory, attractive but unknown. after climbing that steep area I began to go down and I could sight a prey.  Very quietly I began waving downhill with my poison and my pincers ready to attack. when I was close to my prey I assured not to be watch or heard by it, and when I knew I was the right time I moved  fast and I pounced on my prey taking it with my pincers and injecting my poison at the time that I rolled my body around it. my prey tried to move but my poison didn’t allowed it to, very quickly it stood moveless and that allowed me to start feeding myself and calming the hunger that afflicted me. Once I was satisfied I hide a part of my prey in order to feed myself later. After hiding my prey I began to go around the sector attracted instinctively by a female that was really close from there. when I was close to the female I began the courtship dance, with which I caught her attention, but something was not right the high grass near her began to move strongly and from there went out a really big bird. The bird stopped very close where the female was and when she felt the danger she rolled herself trying to play dead and to avoid that the bird hurt her. The bird, after observing for just a moment the female began to peck her until its strong beak made the female to unroll and after pecking her in many pieces he swallowed her. When I realized that I was next, I began to wave even faster than when I had been hunting. I waved as fast as I could until a wood trunk a little rotten that was half of the way. The bird came really fast to the wood trunk and when it began to peck it I tried to continue until the bottom and I could see how a big part of the wood trunk behind me was being destroyed by the bird’s big beak. Everything changed suddenly when I was getting to the end of the trunk the bird’s pecks were not followed, and it was because the wood trunk was stronger at that last section. I continued to advance until the end of the wood trunk when instinctively I rolled myself when a saw a big snake waving toward the outer of the wood trunk. The snake took out its tongue many times close to me but I stood moveless and the snake finally continued moving slowly toward the outer of the wood trunk. After a short time the wood trunk moved very roughly and when it stopped moving the bird’s pecks where finished too. For a long period of time everything was quiet until I could see the snake again but this time it was waving even slower and it had a great lump in the middle of its body. After the snake passed next to me I unrolled myself and I wave toward the outer of the wood trunk. When I got to the outer I didn’t see any danger because my hunter had been hunted. 

With this story I tried to experience the situations lived by a centipedes the animal that I chose for the example. What I tried to show you with this example is that it is a really good way to do creative writing and it can be done with anything not just an animal. the only thing that is necessary to do this kind of writing is to conceive the situations as if you were your characters and you do this by seeing things from the point of view of your characters, it means, how they would feel, how they would act and finally you put everything in the paper and you bring to life your characters.

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