1. The Melodic Approach
It is valuable to relate music and language in the creative writing classroom since music has an effect not only on students' imagination but the whole classroom atmosphere. In general, the use of music in the language classroom encourages students to be quiet because it avoids other auditory distractions. Therefore, it is especially helpful to create the relaxing classroom atmosphere needed to develop creative written composition activities. Music has the ability to change the hearer's mood because it stimulates the hearer's imagination. The Melodic Approach is one of the effective teaching approaches of English creative writing. However, the Melodic Approach is not just the use of music and songs during some teaching steps, but during the entire process of creative writing teaching.
2. English Creative Writing
The most common definition of creativity is that it is a process, which leads to the production of something that is new, unique and useful. The creative process is considered primarily cognitive, involving particular creative skills, and styles. There are various definitions of creativity given by different people.
Houtz and Patricola (1999:1) mentioned that,
Creativity and/or creative thinking is the cognitive processes that lead to the production of new, original ideas, processes, or artefacts that are judged to be useful or otherwise of some value. Many experts also recognize the importance and interaction of emotion and affective processed with cognitive skills in creativity and creative thinking.
Cohen and Ambrose (1999: 11) said that:
The most common definition 0/ creativity involves the production of something new or rare that has value in the world
Guilford (1968) defined creativity as divergent thinking, which IS more common definition of creativity.
Divergent thinking involves production of ideas from given information, with an emphasis on variety and quantity of output. Divergent thinking encompasses several forms of creative thought, including:
(a) the number of ideas generated (fluency)
(b) changes in category, from container to ornament to noise maker (flexibility)
(c) uniqueness or divergence from typical answer, such as using the cup as a snout for a nose less pig (originality)
(d) extensions or improvements to ideas (elaboration).
3. Classroom Atmosphere
Classroom atmosphere is really important to the teaching and learning process. It influences the student's attitudes towards the lessons and the school. As for creative writing, most of the students view writing as a boring activity because the teachers do not have enough knowledge in creating a pleasant creative writing classroom. Creativity arises from a constellation of psychological characteristics, which is not merely thinking, but as thinking plus control processes that activate, guide, and evaluate the thinking. To have the interaction that leads to creativity, the person must be motivated to seek the new, take the risk of being laughed at, or go without the security offered sticking to the safe and well known, as against seeking a quick, safe, tried, and, trusted solution. This requires appropriate personal properties such as courage, openness, or self confidence (Cropley, A.I.,1999). The teachers therefore need to learn more on how to create a fun and relaxing classroom that encourages personal properties.