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Our imagination starts to flow when we begin creative writing. It is up to you, the writer to lead the potential reader to all the places you visualize. Currents wants to offer you the platform to do so. The different types of creative writing we accept include:
Stories should be 300-800 words and accompanied by a photo or graphic when possible. Photos should be (1920 x 1080) – submitted with captions.
If submitting video, the following specifications are a guideline for authors/contributors – submitted with captions.
Frame rate: 15 frames per second minimum
Video codec: H.264 (+AAC) preferred
Video Bit rate: at least 260 kbps (750 kbps preferred)
Recommended frame size: 492×276
Duration: up to a maximum length of 90 seconds
All submissions should be sent to editor@bainbridgecurrents.com. Include your full name and contact information. All submissions are subject to editing prior to publication. The work must be your own and you are responsible for the accuracy of the content. Unless otherwise indicated, we assume that your article has not been published elsewhere in North America. The site is supported by the non-profit Arts & Humanities Bainbridge and does not pay for contributions. We do not retain the rights to your submission and you may republish elsewhere.
Poems provide great examples of creative writing. In fact, they’re almost exclusively emotional and imaginative. This excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter” is an example of creative writing because it is not based in fact and uses a lot of imagination.
If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year,
Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said,
That they could get it clear?’
I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.
If you’d like to try your hand at a poem, check out these tips on writing poems.
Short stories can be narrative, funny, mysterious, satirical, fantasy, or historical. Often stories include a lesson for the reader. This excerpt from Margaret Barrington’s “Village Without Men,” from The Glass Shore anthology (edited by Sinéad Gleeson) is a great example of using creativity to evoke emotion.
Weary and distraught, the women listened to the storm as it raged around the houses. The wind screamed and howled. It drove suddenly against the doors with heavy lurchings. It tore at the straw ropes that anchored the thatched roofs to the ground. It rattled and shook the small windows. It sent the rain in narrow streams under the door, through the piled-up sacks, to form large puddles on the hard, stamped, earthen floors.
Novels are certainly creative. Readers look forward to dipping in and out of new worlds created in novels, be they fantasy or realistic. This excerpt from Dark Witch, by famed romance writer Nora Roberts features a real place, Ireland, with a fictional character and story.
The cold carved bone deep, fueled by the lash of the wind, iced by the drowning rain gushing from a bruised, bloated sky. Such was Iona Sheehan’s welcome to Ireland. She loved it. How could she not? She asked herself as she hugged her arms to her chest and drank in the wild, soggy view from her window. She was standing in a castle. She’d sleep in a castle that night. An honest-to-God Irish castle in the heart of the west.
Creative writing examples provided by Michele Meleen – grammar.yourdictionary.com