Tips for students:
-Believe in yourself. Everyone has a story to tell. Remember your grandmother’s folk tales and get inspired.
-Be conscious of your surrounding. Use the sense of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing to give feeling to what you write.
-Keep a note book close, to jot down anything that fascinates you.This is raw material for your poem, novel or play.
-Keep a note book by your bedside. Write down any interesting thing you think about before you go to bed, because you might not remember it when you rise.
-Read as many books as possible. Reading expands your command of language, even in other subjects in school.
Tips for teachers.
-Take your students on a field trip and make them use the environment as a source of inspiration.
- Do not stifle your students creativity by dictating what they should write about. Let them choose their subject matter.
- Give students opportunities to workshop their creative writing and let the class respond to it. The growth of a writer comes from the response of the audience.
- Use extracts from published works, to illustrate the different kinds of styles used by different writers. Let them tell you why they prefer one style from the another.
- Creative writing should be an interactive course, that should not be examined. Break the routine of the teacher standing at the front of the class. Create a free atmosphere in the class. If it means you sitting cross-legged on top of the desk, so be it!

-As career guidance, provide the student with the various opportunities that are available in the job market for creative writers i.e Writers, copywriters in advertising companies, editors, journalists and as script writers in the film industry.
Compiled by Ayeta Wangusa
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