Blair Luchs 8/23/11

Creative Writing Assignment The definition of being creative is to relate or involve the imagination of original

ideas. Constructing a piece of creative work, to me, is exactly what the definition of

creative states in that in order for a work to be “creative,” it needs contain an original

idea, and an imaginative mind to create that idea. Any work can be considered creative in

and of itself if it falls in to these previous categories, regardless of opinion. By exercising

their imaginative skills, a writer learns to look inward upon themselves and can learn a lot

about who they are and what they believe in. In order for Dilbert to make his poem more

creative, he needs to add life and his own insight to the poem. A poem without life is like

a rose without petals. It my still be and appear to be a rose, but without its petals, there is

no beauty to be pondered upon. Any simple being, in this case a monkey, can create a

simple set of words that do not have much meaning, but in order for it to be creative, it

needs to have something far deeper that clearly shows a lot of thought process. Dr. Seuss

once said in order to stem imagination, one must, “Think and wonder, wonder and think."

Seuss is saying that thinking and imagination work hand in hand with each other and

without one, it is impossible to form the other. This is what Dogbert is trying to get

across to Dilbert in that he is “a monkey” if he just rights words on paper without adding

any true meaning to the words. For instance, an infant can memorize how to count to ten,

but if asked to answer what one plus three is, it will not be able to answer. In conclusion,

in order for a creative work to be conceived three questions should be answered. Is my

work Creative? Did my creative work require a lot of thinking on my part? Is my work

original?