Personal writing and academic writing are similar in that creativity and imagination can be used to decide upon the subject matter and the structure of the work. Beyond similarities such as this there are stark differences between academic and personal writing in the validity of the writing, the style, the prose, and also the content. Academic writing requires that the topic being discussed not be fictional and that the subject matter cannot be fabricated and it must be verifiable through sources or some other empirical method. Therefore, academic and personal writing are drastically different from one another for the most part. Personal writing has a great deal more freedom in comparison with academic writing in terms of subject matter, style, and construction.
