NCERT Book Class 11 English (Hornbill) Writing Skills Ch 6 Creative Writing

6. Cr eat ive Wr it ing
The teacher was explaining the lines in the beginning of Shakespeare’s
play Macbeth. It was a description of the battle and the lines were:

Like Valour’s minion, carved out his passage,
Till he faced the slave;
With ne’er shook hands, nor baded farewell to him.
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps,…

The teacher asked the students what the word ‘unseamed’ meant. It
was difficult. The teacher prodded them on. “What does ‘seam’ mean?
Haven’t you ever come across the word?” One of the students blurted
out “Cricket ball”.
This is an example of how each of us reacts to words according to
what our own experience has been.
When we write about factual information, all of us write almost
similarly. But when we write for pleasure each of us may write about
the same event in different ways.
One very important element in creative writing is imagination. This is
reflected in
 our view or perspective
 choice of words
 the comparisons we make
 the images we use
 the tone we adopt
 novelty of ideas.

Let us study the paragraph below.
A town is like an animal. A town has a nervous system and a head
and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other
towns, so that there are no towns alike. And a town has a whole
emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to
be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble