What skill area does creative writing fall under?

[Zakalwe]

This is going to be quite a short question I think, but I was just wondering, under what cattegory falls the ability to write creatively?

Art and Vocations (sculpting, painting, drawing, anime, gem cutting, etc.)
Biology (Includes genetics, xenobiology, zoology, etc.)
Chemistry (terraforming, creating new substances, etc.)
Communications (proficiency in communication; writing and speaking, Includes cryptography)
Construction (masonry, carpentry, nanoconstruction)
Culinary (bakers, chefs, butchers, cooks)
Demolitions (explosives identification, manufacture, handling, disposal)
Domestic (Includes things like laundry, basic cooking, cleaning, infant care)
Engineering (designing and building something)
Entertainment (acting, storytelling, belly dancing, performing, sexual techniques, playing an instrument, singing etc.)
Fighting (Martial arts, power armor, hand-to-hand combat, weapons)
Humanities (psychology, sociology, anthropology, diplomacy, and philosophy)
Knowledge (History, law, reference, memory)
Leadership (public speaking, intelligence, command, diplomacy, recognizing ambush points, etc.)
Maintenance and Repair (The skill needed by a technician and/or mechanic)
Mathematics (Includes accounting, statistics, dimensional theory, quantum physics, etc.)
Medical and Science (Surgery, pathology, medicine, cybernetics installation)
Physical (acrobatics, running, etc.)
Rogue (Pick-pocketing, pick locks, slight of hand, "streetwise," seduction)
Starship Operations (Astrometrics, stellar cartography, navigation, helm, etc.)
Survival and Military (Finding water, land navigation, shelter construction, hunting, signaling, camouflage)
Technology Operation (Computers and networking, nodal system)
Vehicles: (Mecha, tanks, cars, trucks, hovercraft. [Power Armor goes under Fighting and Physical])

I couldn't see it anywhere, and the character I am creating at the moment (someone for the acadamy plot that may be finaly running!) I would like to give him that ability.

Currently it looks like it would fall under Communications, but perhaps it would be better under 'Arts and Vocations'?

Actually, I'm not certain this is the right forum, it is quite possible it should be in the setting forum instead.

 

[Cora]

I'd have to vouch for Art and Vocation.

 

[Doshii Jun]

I'd have to vouch for Art and Vocation.

That or Entertainment, depending on how the writing is used.

 

[Cannonball]

I'd say definitely art and vocation. Entertainment seems to be more focused on physical activities for the given examples while art and vocation mentions paining and the like.

 

[Yangfan]

Humanities: if your char is good at writing political essays, social commentary, philosophical musings, speeches, formal treaties, etc.
(ex: Thomas Jefferson, Colin Powell)

Entertainment: if your char is good at writing novels or other writing that would sell well.
(ex: Anne Rice, Stephen King)

Arts and Vocations: if your char is good at writing, but his work is less popular but has a more timeless quality, and would start selling well some decades after he's dead.
(ex: Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce)

The examples are a bit extreme, but those are the people that your char would aspire to, had he known them. There are analogous people in the Star Army universe to aspire to, of course.

 

[Wes]

Communications.

 

[Cannonball]

Or communications that actually says writing under it *smacks head* >.<

 

[Minorock]

Yeah, communication is the clear answer, but Entertainment does have story telling in the brackets so I think you have to look at what type of writing she/he is doing.

 

[Cannonball]

I would assume storytelling is more to do with oratory and actually telling the story to an audience than the actual writing of the tale. I could imagine that sort of skill in the hands of bards and the people of a traditional mouth-to-mouth eductation system.