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Guest post by Lauren Davison  Introduction It’s a challenge to give creative writing an exact definition The scope of it is so vast, that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what something has to be, in order to be categorised under the creative writing umbrella. However, Derbyshire Writing School co-founder Laura Stroud’s description of creative writing as ‘an act of creation,’ that allows us to bring ‘new ideas, stories, even people, into existence,’ is a particularly exciting way to think about it.   Whether it’s a poem, a story, a memoir, creative writing has an infinite number of possibilities. As David Morley points out, 'we should…