What kind of creative method a writer or artist adopts is restricted by his world outlook, life experience, artistic accomplishment and psychological characteristics, and the creative method is often an important symbol of literary thought or genre. That is, the aesthetic principles that writers consciously or unconsciously follow. It reflects the writer's attitude towards reality, and stipulates the construction method of artistic image and the artistic summary method of reality. Writers usually use certain creative methods in the whole creative process, including the experience and feeling of life, the artistic conception throughout, the breeding of characters and the pursuit of artistic expression. The formation and development of a creative method often takes a long time. After the accumulation and continuous summary of many writers' artistic practices, it gradually matures and is followed by everyone. Even the creative methods that have been widely recognized and followed by everyone will be enriched, changed and developed continuously. On the one hand, the creative method is the product of history, and its appearance and wide application are deeply branded with the times and society; On the other hand, if it contains some common laws in artistic creation, it may be adopted by writers of different times, societies and nationalities. For every writer, the reason why he adopts or follows a certain creative method is always closely related to his world outlook, life experience, artistic accomplishment, aesthetic point of view, creative personality and other factors.
There are many ways of literary creation, among which realism and romanticism are the most important. It is generally believed that the realistic creation method focuses on the objective description of things, and the writer's aesthetic ideal is integrated into artistic description; It requires the authenticity of detail description, the typicality of artistic generalization and the description of typical characters in typical environment. Romantic writing techniques often highlight the writer's subjective feelings unabashedly, with peculiar structure and emphasis on expression, and often use deformed hypothetical means to create powerful characters.