We have a habit of using the term CREATIVE WRITING

We use it almost exclusively to label fiction writing.

Such as writing novels, short stories, poetry.

This implies that writing non-fiction is not creative work.

And that non-fiction is easier to write than fiction.

We all know this to be patently false.

Writing good prose non-fiction is tough to do well.

The term creative writing also has an aspirational feel to it.

It conjures up a would-be writer with lofty thoughts that need inspiration, spiritual motivation, and seclusion, who writes with no or little thought for financial gain.

Creative writing is a descriptor that we should eliminate as being unnecessary and, worse, misleading.

__ Dennis Mellersh, Content Journalist.