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Embracing the Individual Voice: An Organic Approach to Creative Writing in the Classroom

This guide explores an organic approach to creative writing in the classroom, fostering each student's unique voice. Through free exploration and unstructured processes, students can tap into their creativity without the confines of rigid planning. By engaging with powerful questions about their characters—like desires, treasures, and challenges—writers can navigate their narratives organically, much like wandering through a woodland path. As Joan Didion suggests, writing can be a means to discover thoughts, fears, and aspirations, enhancing self-expression and storytelling skills.

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Embracing the Individual Voice: An Organic Approach to Creative Writing in the Classroom

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  1. Encouraging the individual voice An organic approach to creative writing in the classroom

  2. An organic approach • “I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided upon before entry … having discovered that I write fiction in a disgracefully haphazard sort of way, I now hit on the passage through an unknown wood as an analogy.”

  3. The Outsider

  4. Brainstorm • Who is this person? What is his/her name? • Why is this person an outsider? • What does your character most want? • What is his/her most treasured possession? • What are the worst and best things that have ever happened to this person? • Put your character in a location – describe two key items in the room in which they are located at the time of telling their story. • What or who is stopping this person from getting what they want?

  5. Who are they?

  6. Why write? • “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” – Joan Didion

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