"creative writing" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} creative writing (uncountable)
  1. The art of writing texts such as novels, short stories and poems which fall outside the bounds of professional, journalistic, academic and technical discourse. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Literature Translations (written texts which fall outside the bounds of normal texts): 創意寫作 (Chinese Mandarin), 创意写作 (chuàngyì xiězuò) (Chinese Mandarin), 創意性寫作 (Chinese Mandarin), 创意性写作 (chuàngyìxìng xiězuò) (Chinese Mandarin), luova kirjoittaminen (Finnish), творечко пишување (tvorečko pišuvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), twórcze pisanie [neuter] (Polish), scriere creativă (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-creative_writing-en-noun-mUXM9qzn Disambiguation of Literature: 95 5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 93 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'written texts which fall outside the bounds of normal texts': 77 23
  2. Such texts generally. Tags: uncountable
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