Difference of Imaginative Writing to Other forms of Writings

But while writers of academic books or professional reports use information and ideas to
communicate, creative writers use verbal pictures.

Creative writers, then, are those who make pictures (also called images ) in their own
imaginations and transfer those pictures, through language, into the imaginations of others.

Imaginative writing is also a way far from the other types of writing. Below are the unique
characteristics of imaginative writing:
a. Clarity: It doesn’t confuse people. (This sounds so obvious, but you’d be surprised at
the number of writers who think they have to be clever or coy or literary which just
leaves the reader in the dark.)
b. Form: It has a beginning, middle and an ending. The beginning draws readers in and the
ending is satisfying. This holds true for fiction, memoir, personal essays,
autobiographies, and stories for kids. Occasionally a writer who’s a genius ignores this,
but most of us aren’t geniuses and can’t ignore it.
c. Emotion: It’s emotionally charged and the reader cares what happens to the
protagonist. We either cry or laugh or are scared or feel something
d. Meaning and connection: It’s about people or situations the reader can connect to.
Either a story we enter into with the author for entertainment, or a subject or emotion
that we too are dealing with or want to learn about, or can find humor in. It is not a
story about the author gazing at his or her belly button. In some way the writing
connects to the rest of the world.
e. Language: The author cares deeply about words and their power. No overblown
adjectives or adverbs (and only those absolutely necessary for information.)No flabby
clichés. The author loves language and hones and rewrites every sentence.