How to write a creative writing piece essay

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HOW TO WRITE A CREATIVE WRITING PIECE

Compose a piece of original imaginative writing using a setting from one of your prescribed texts and incorporating these three terms: 

a wish, a message, solitude

Your response should draw on your knowledge and understanding of the elective you have studied.

Before entering the exam room, prepare a loose plot outline that is flexible enough to be adapted to the question. Drawing from a fable (if you’re studying a context-based elective) or a clichéd plot (if you’re studying a genre) and twisting it to suit your purposes can be particularly effective. This is because it shows that you understand what you have studied but are also able to take an original approach. For example, one outline would be “Little Red Riding Hood goes into the woods and is eaten by the wolf. This plot is a symbol of the despair and the subversion of tradition that characterised the Cold War period.” (for the Module B – After the Bomb elective)

In the exam room, read the question carefully. This one is asking you to use the setting from one of your prescribed texts, but to also compose an original piece. This means, don’t simply write extended endings to your prescribed texts – it needs to be a fresh plot.
Having your prepared plot outline at hand is enormously helpful. Try to work in some elements of whatever you have prepared, if the question restricts you the way this one does. This, however, requires some quick thinking on your part, as you cannot prepare for every possibility (nor should you).