PART ONE: An aspect that I really picked up on about the creative nonfiction writing in my
active reading was that the non fiction can be reflective and should be factual. I knew the factual
aspect of it has to be there, but I didn’t realize how cathartic it could be. For me I wrote about
where I used to work, and while it is factual, I didn’t realize how you can blend together your
thoughts and feelings together into a more elaborate story than, yeah I worked there.
Real Life- “The foundation of good writing emerges from personal experience.”
While we can make fiction stories all day long, there is nothing more real than the stories that we have lived and it can be powerful to bring them to life in the creative nonfiction way.
Reflection- “Creative nonfiction should reflect a writer’s feelings and responses about a subject”
While writing the creative nonfiction exercise the reflection process of collecting feeling about and idea did come out to be very powerful for me.
Research- “I want to make myself knowledgeable enough to ask intelligent questions. If I can’t display at least a minimal understanding of the subject about which I am writing, I will lose the confidence and the support of the people who must provide access to the experience”
While I didn’t do any research for my piece because it was reflective and from personal experience I was happy to know that the genre of creative nonfiction can go beyond just personal experience and go into things we haven’t experienced yet, all we need to do is be knowledgeable and do our research.
QUESTION: how do people get away with passing things to be based on a true story but dramatizing everything?
PART TWO: In the short creative nonfiction “Joyas Voladoras” the use of research and personal experience is heavily used. While describing the hummingbirds from a research standpoint and also from personal observation. This helped me a lot to realize what can count as a standpoint of creative nonfiction.
WORD COUNT: 341
Real Life- “The foundation of good writing emerges from personal experience.”
While we can make fiction stories all day long, there is nothing more real than the stories that we have lived and it can be powerful to bring them to life in the creative nonfiction way.
Reflection- “Creative nonfiction should reflect a writer’s feelings and responses about a subject”
While writing the creative nonfiction exercise the reflection process of collecting feeling about and idea did come out to be very powerful for me.
Research- “I want to make myself knowledgeable enough to ask intelligent questions. If I can’t display at least a minimal understanding of the subject about which I am writing, I will lose the confidence and the support of the people who must provide access to the experience”
While I didn’t do any research for my piece because it was reflective and from personal experience I was happy to know that the genre of creative nonfiction can go beyond just personal experience and go into things we haven’t experienced yet, all we need to do is be knowledgeable and do our research.
QUESTION: how do people get away with passing things to be based on a true story but dramatizing everything?
PART TWO: In the short creative nonfiction “Joyas Voladoras” the use of research and personal experience is heavily used. While describing the hummingbirds from a research standpoint and also from personal observation. This helped me a lot to realize what can count as a standpoint of creative nonfiction.
WORD COUNT: 341
Good post Paul. You did a really good job of explaining the quotes. Your question definitely gets me thinking more about how truthful dramatizing can actually be.
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