As i sit in class and think about this question, a few ideas come to mind. For starters creative nonfiction is a piece of a writing that is interesting. It's exciting. When i think of nonfiction i think of an essay. However the word creatives makes it different from a regular essay. By using the word creative it makes the piece of writing more appealing to the reader. Creativity is using your imagination.
I just finished reading the stories "Keeping a Journal" "Superman and Me" "Keeping a Notebook" and "Out There". Overall these stories were very interesting. My favorite one was "Superman and Me" this one in particular really helped me understand what creative nonfiction is. the whole idea of a paragraph was transformed into real life. The narrator used the word paragraph as a fence that held words. Families are paragraphs too. For example a family of four is four paragraphs; mother, father, brother, and sister. I found that cool. Creative nonfiction is like taking a simple thing or concept and putting a spin on it making it interesting and allowing the reader to see it a different yet exciting way. We know what paragraphs are and we see them all the time, but to think of other things outside papers and books as paragraphs is interesting.
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I agree that CNF takes a story or idea and puts a spin on it. In CNF we are obliged to tell the "truth" so in many ways it is the power of our telling that makes it work. So as a gnere -CNF is definitely working on the CREATIVE part in terms of how the information is presented. Yep. I agree with you on that.
What else? What do the similarities and differences among the three pieces imply about the genre?
ALso - for sure the creative part is about making the the boring old essay into something more exciting. And that makes our work to figure out exactly HOW CNF is different from regular essays. . . or is it really any different?
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