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.