I can't write creatively

Give me a paper where I have to research something and write specifically about the prompt and I do fine. But when I had to write this first paper, I definitely ran into some problems. The hardest thing for me was the language in my paper. I had trouble getting away from using the words role and community, and it showed in my paper and how it wasn't really able to flow that well in the beginning. The paper did get a lot easier however when I was told that it was supposed to be more of a story and that informed me that I could take a more creative look at what I was writing. For this paper I'm definitely going to rethink the ways that I previously looked at research papers and will probably change the way I go about writing it.