It is heartening that a positive shift from quantity to quality is observed in our educational institutions. Some schools have started allocating space in their academic timetable to creative writing in the early classes. However, when things are done for the sake of things, the real objective is the first thing to disappear. It also entails the loss of time and talent.

Creativity pursued in one subject helps solve mysteries in other subjects as well, and the learning of a language serves purpose the best. At the embryonic stage, one's native or national language facilitates one to speak or write one's heart out. Possibility should be availed of at the early stages if a bilingualist teacher is ready to teach creative writing in the national as well as the second language.

Story-telling and paragraph writing in a native or national language removes the barriers to entry, providing a threshold effect for creative writing in English. It also helps students learn narrative or descriptive structure by default........

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