Blog Three

Possible Topics

Being only twenty-two, I feel like my life hasn't had many life changing moments. Perhaps I only had minor moments in my life that have impacted me. One thing that did have a long lasting impact on me and became the reason for some irrational fears I have is when I was about six or seven and was terrified by a joke my dad played on me. Another possible topic is when I was younger I found out I had Lyme's Disease. My final idea is when a man named Gene claimed to be my mother's brother about seven years ago.

Blog Two

Creative nonfiction is about taking a factual life event or historical moment and adding emotion and description to make the story stronger. When writing creative nonfiction, authors often use elements of fiction to generate a more interesting and in depth story. They will use flashbacks and irony to help recreate the scene they are writing about.

When reading Gutkind and Lott, they had made some interesting comments about what creative nonfiction is. Both authors had discussed how important it is to stay factual when writing CNF. Authors writing CNF have no room for writing false facts about their story. That would then make the story fiction, rather than nonfiction. Even though authors use fictional aspects in their writing, they don’t use it to bend the truth. Gutking and Lott had both stressed the issue that telling the truth in a CNF piece is so important, the most important aspect in the story.

I didn’t seem to find any facts that they left out. After reading them, I didn’t have too many questions that went unanswered.

Today, creative nonfiction is constantly changing its definitions; mostly because of digital publishing. People everyday are now blogging and writing “snapshots” of their daily life or current events. People are constantly giving their opinion on newsworthy events and writing about personal experiences that coincide with them. It seems that people are now writing more to get a point across rather than what they feel and what they want they’re reader to feel.  

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What it Creative Nonfiction?

Creative nonfiction is about telling a story in a more detailed way. The author gives their reader true facts about a time in their own life or a time in history and give a more detailed description. They use description and dialogue to emphasize their story.

Essential Features

• Told in first person's point-of-view
• Characters
• Description
• Tone
• Self Discovery
• Emotions

Sometimes There, Sometimes Not

• Minor Characters
• Metaphors
• Dialogue
• The ending of the creative nonfiction stories are not always happy

Differences Between Long and Short Forms

The main difference between the short and long forms of the stories is the level of detail. The longer stories had more description in their works and it was if the author had more to say. The scenes in the longer versions were set specifically to what the author remembers. They place the setting exactly how they want the reader to see it, the way that they saw it.

In the shorter versions, the author gets right the point. They didn't dwell on the little details because they didn't hold as much importance. They had wanted the reader to know just what their plot was and what the tone was  from the first few sentences.