ASSIGNMENT | creative writing

Directions: Complete this writing exercise: Choose a writer or piece you admire, and write a 300ish word imitation. You can imitate by writing a “missing piece” whether that be a scene that occurred offstage, a rewrite from a different character’s perspective, or an event that could have fit plausibly within the world of the story—or you can write an imitation that takes place within a separate story. The point, whether using your own characters and settings or not, is to notice the qualities that make that piece of writing unique and emulate them.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Creative Writing
Creativity as the imagination hallmark challenges the supposed orthodoxy of literature. One warped social setting imitates the setting Chinua Achebe presented in Things Fall Apart. This social setting is that of the Igbo land, home to the Igbo people of Nigeria. It is in this setting that a scene imitates the “missing” piece Chinua Achebe would have created in his novel when he presented the Okonkwo character before the readers. For instance, Okonkwo’s language, including that of other villagers, ought to…