If you have always been told to keep to the rules and not think 'outside the box' then the idea of creative thinking might be rather daunting for you. Many people are brought up during their schooling to believe that there is only one way to do things, that is the 'correct way'. In fact there may be many different ways to achieve the same outcome.

Creative writing can be a vague and interpretive phrase! What does it really mean? Who are the creative writers? Are not all writers creative? When I am reading I do not really want to waste my time reading writing which is not relevant and applicable to my life and work. I am just one of these serious chaps! When I write my longing is to be more than creative, and that is where content and substance assume an importance and prominence. The serious writer need never apologise for being serious, and the serious writer should continue to be serious if that is where he feels his strengths lie.

If you have the passion for writing and you love to share it to children, you can write books for children and enjoy the feeling of being able to make the children happy and make them enjoy your stories as well. But of course, writing for children means having to make your writing even better than writing for adults.

In 'A Tale Of Two Cities', Dickens had distributed the humour among various pockets: the way he described the characters, the manners that the lords of the land followed in France, and the narrative technique in which he had no competitor. While describing the human tragedies and follies of common men, he had endeavoured to infuse funniness through the comedy of manners. But he had not tried to soften the bitterness of truth that the ongoing revolution was supposed to hold.