"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), scriere creativă (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-creative_writing-en-noun-mUXM9qzn Disambiguation of Literature: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 87 13 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'written texts which fall outside the bounds of normal texts': 77 23
  2. Such texts generally. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-creative_writing-en-noun-v8mrHWrj

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