Creative Writing to the Future

Creative writing, and the idea of someone being defined as a “creative writer,” comes about today because of how the eighteenth century produced notions about the activity itself and about its results. Throughout the twentieth century the growth of creative writing courses in universities and colleges brought to the fore many ideas about how creative writing might be taught and learnt. In which case, creative writing has always been in and around education. This chapter concludes, indeed, this book, would be to simply include some blank pages on which readers could write their own thoughts on the future of creative writing perhaps even do some creative writing of your own, and include it here in this book as a form of reply or response or, indeed, creative participation in the whole thing.