Sixty-seven subjects Q-sorted 47 written messages according to creativeness. Message ratings were factor analyzed. Subjects were tested for creative aptitude on the Remote Associates Test. The predominate factor, creativeness, accounted for 11 percent of the common factor variance. The thirteen subjects salient on this factor had moderate to high RAT scores, indicating that creativeness aptitude provides a basis for judging creativeness of writing. The creativeness factor scores and 24 stylistic measures of each message were correlated. The correlations were factor analyzed. Three factors having moderate-sized loadings on creativeness emerged. Four stylistic indices loaded highly on one of these factors. The multiple correlation between these four indices and creativeness factor scores was .67. A multiple regression equation was generated, which may be used as a stylistic correlate measure of creativeness.
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