HOLY NAME UNIVERSITY

INTEGRATED BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

CONCEPT NOTES (Form 2-a)

Languages Area: Creative Writing
Grade Level: Gr. 12
Week No.: 1
A. Learning Content: Lesson 1: Creative Writing vs Other Forms of Writing
Lesson 2: Sensory Experience in Imaginative Writing
B. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
• Define creative writing
• Understand the nature of creative writing
• Differentiate creative writing to other forms of writing
• Write their creative writing piece
• Explain sensory details,
• Identify the importance of sensory details in creative writing,
• Exercise the use of sensory details in writing.

C. Learning Tasks:
1. Read and study the concept notes
2. Answer Exercise 1

LESSON I
Creative Writing vs Other Forms of Writing
Introduction
The human mind is a vast universe that contains limitless thoughts and no one can fathom its
complexities unless explored and expressed. It is necessary that one share pieces of their universe in any form
possible liberate the encapsulated ideas inside them.

There are various ways on how people share these thoughts. Others do it through visual arts, some of
the movements, many of music, and a lot of writing. This lesson focuses on writing to express. Though there are
different types of writing, this will primarily highlight creative writing and its differences to other forms of
writing. This will give students a clear picture of what creative writing is, its nature, and its uses.

Discussion
What is Creative Writing?

Creative writing is the artistic expression through written word. It is used to express the writer's ideas
and emotions in an artistic manner. Unlike other forms of writing, it uses a language that aims to entertain and
captivate the audience.

The table below shows the comparison between creative writing and technical writing to fully understand what
creative writing is.

Aspects Technical Writing Creative Writing

Forms/Samples Research journals, proposals, reports, poetry, fiction, drama
guidelines
Objective Aims to instruct and inform the readers Aims to entertain the readers

Content Shows facts Reflects the writer's imagination

Audience With specific target audience Broader audience
Diction Formal Informal
Structure Systematic Artistic
Sample Creative Works
Creative works can be classified as poetry, fiction, and drama. Below are the samples of creative works
per classification:

POETRY
Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel
Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal:
Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal
O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal
That grief for which the senses still supply
Fresh food; for only then, when memory
Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain
Those busy cares that would allay my pain;
Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The officious touch that makes me droop again.
William Wordsworth
FICTION
"Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling,
and he told me so many times to stop pestering him. I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got a tapeworm?"
Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.

This change in Jem had come about in a matter of weeks. Mrs. Dubose was not cold in her grave-
Jem had seemed grateful enough for my company when he went to read to her. Overnight, it seemed,
Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so
far as to tell me what to do. After one altercation when Jem hollered, "It's time you started bein' a girl
and acting right!" I burst into tears and fled to Calpurnia."
Excerpt from To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee
DRAMA
"ACT I
SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.
Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger
LEONATO
I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina.
Messenger
He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him.
LEONATO
How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?
Messenger
But few of any sort, and none of the name.
LEONATO
A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath
bestowed much honor on a young Florentine called Claudio.
Messenger
Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the
promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better bettered
expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
LEONATO
He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it."

Excerpt from Much Ado about Nothing, William Shakespeare

 Lesson II
Sensory Experience in Imaginative Writing
Introduction
Wouldn't it be nice if a piece of work will make you feel as if you are involved in the text you are reading
and that you are a part of it?
An effective creative work gives a clear mental picture to the reader. It makes the reader imagine and
feel what is being read. This spices up the reading experience.
This lesson will discuss sensory details and their importance in writing. This will tackle why there is a
need of inserting sensory details in a creative literary work and how it affects a reader's interest in a piece of
work. This also contains activities that will enhance the student's usage of sensory details and will teach students
on how to effectively write sensory experiences to produce an engaging, imaginative piece.

Discussion
What are sensory details?

Sensory details use the five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) to add depth of detail
to writing. Although sensory details are most commonly used in narratives, they can be incorporated
into many types of writing to help your work stand out. Sensory details are powerful and memorable
because they allow your reader to see, hear, smell, taste, or feel your words.

Type of Sensory Detail Vague Sentence Vivid Sentence

Sight (color, shape, appearance) The sky was blue. The sky was a bright blue, like the
color that stains your teeth after
drinking a blue raspberry slushy.
Touch (textures) The rock was rough. The coarse rock was rough against
my palm; it felt as if it was coated
in sandpaper.
Sound The music sounded nice. From the very first, jazzy note, the
whole room couldn’t help swaying
along to the irresistible beat.
Taste The candy was sour. My taste buds recoiled from the
sudden tartness, drawing my lips
into a pucker.
Smell I smell something weird. The odor attacked my nostrils; It
was a disgusting mix of rotten
eggs, wet dog, and dirty diapers.

The words or phrases that describe the content of the text vividly are called sensory details. Sensory
details add power to writing. It gives a more concrete sensory experience that allows a reader to have a clear
mental picture of the scene or subject being described. Without visual details, writing would be dull and plain.
In creative writing, one must always remember to use words or phrases that appeal to the five senses to sustain
the interest of the readers. Sensory details can make the reader see, hear, touch, taste, and smell the object
being described even without seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling it.

Sources:
• Buhisan, AJF. G. & Sayseng, A. H. (2016). Creative Writing. Expressing Creative Thoughts through Imaginative Writing:
Creative Writing vs. Other Forms of Writing, pp. 1-7.
• https://allpoetry.com/Calm-is-all-Nature-as-a-Resting-Wheel
• https://lewisu.edu/writingcenter/pdf/sensory-details-resources-final-update-1-1.pdf

Prepared by: Ms. Ruby Ann Marie Ocular, LPT