What is Creative Writing?

My first blog post on BCWI was about the definition of creative writing. The article is entitled "What Is Creative Writing?"

I worry about the academia that centers around creative fiction writing and stage and screenplay writing. I think that if you hold too fast about one particular definition of what creative writing actually is, you may lose sight of your potential contribution to the art form.

That is why I define creative writing as writing from the heart. That way it leaves room for each person to come at writing from his or her own perspective.