How to Write Creatively: 3 Steps To Stand Out Without Sounding Clever

Nicolas Cole
4 min readMay 7, 2024

The vast majority of writers don’t know what they mean when they say “creative writing.”

The way we are taught to think about creative writing goes like this:

There are rules to the game of writing. These rules were created by people far smarter and more talented than you. And your job is to take their rules, learn them, master them, and then try to execute within the rules of the game, better than all the other people who are trying to do the same thing.

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Nicolas Cole

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