Creative writing 1

Creative writing is an awkward concept that seems to bring about some confusion.
I've seen people say this is absolute nonsense, because it deals with the art of publishing books as if it was just a question of following a "recipe", a set of infallible techniques. Others believe those who are born with this "thing" for writing don't need this, because it all comes out naturally and fluently, as if it had meant to be always that way.
Fiddlesticks! Nothing could further from the truth and the real world.
Writing, whatever it is - short stories, novels, historical novels, science fiction, requires above all research: no writer just jots down what comes to their minds. Any book requires hard work, researching different sources, sketching the layout of the action and sub-actions, the characters, the times and spaces, not to mention the endless reviewing and editing by the writers themselves and by others.
So what does a club in creative witing intend to do? Just loosen up the brain, bring down the barriers and chains slowly but persistently built around us, sometimes because people around us didn't believe us or we needed to protect ourselves from disappointments. These are the pains of growing up in an educational system as the one we now have and where youngsters (as well as grown-ups) are not taught to think, be critical and demanding, believe in themselves and be bold. Because all this needs to be taught or rather released from the bodice into which it was locked and forgotten.
For all this, the experience is to be shared between teacher and students, pacing down the path that will eventually lead to the freedom of imagination.

CM