Creative Writing Response Essay

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Dear Mr. Hanif Kureishi, Recently on the guardian website I read your article on Creative writing and I was deeply impressed with your point of view.
I respect your perspective on creative writing, because as a student I have to confess that creative writing cannot be taught, it is a talent which a person has. To support your point of view which you represented in the article, I think that people should understand the situation rather practically than theoretically. Theoretically, when courses and special training are provided, we can pursue our way ahead, but rationally this is not applicable to everyone. After giving special training and providing with creative writing courses, some students still fail to develop interest in the creative writing field and they are not able to cope with their mentor’s expectations.
During an interview in one of your statements you mentioned that "a lot of my students just can’t tell a story". This is exactly what we suspect after the training sessions with the students who have not got that talent of creative writing. Teachers cannot develop creativity in a student. Creative writing is not something that everybody has a flair for. Creative writing is an inbuilt …show more content…

No one is going to read your book for the writing.” People prefer books which has powerful characters and a gripping plot. In training sessions, students are taught how to write, but the content still remains the question? The teachers cannot teach a skill which is creativeness to a student, but they can give guidance which is not an important part in the books. As you said that the time span of their learning classes is only a weekend, which is only two days so learning a skill is a very slow process. It requires around 4 to 5 years for this process to develop in a personality. The person has to put a habit of continuously reading the creative writing master pieces and learn the

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