Introductory Post

After looking through the websites Creative Nonfiction and Brevity, I feel the definition they give to creative nonfiction is fairly accurate. They define it as telling a true story, but doing so in a way that is interesting and makes it unique to other writings on similar subjects. The story needs to be told in such a way that it will capture the reader and keep them interested throughout the entire writing.

While on the Creative Nonfiction site I read an excerpt from a piece of writing titled Night Rhythms by John T. Price. I enjoyed reading this excerpt because of all the detail that was put into it. He wrote it in such a way you could almost picture the room he was describing and feel like you were in it. This is something that I feel is very important in Creative Nonfiction because as a reader if you can picture where the events took place it makes it that much more real. I believe this piece of writing is a personal narrative. It seems that the writer is remembering a past experience while in a new place.

After reading a few more of the articles I believe that this type of writing is completely different than a lot of the writing I have done in the past. The majority of writing I have done has been fiction. However I have written some fiction and brought elements of nonfiction into it. A type of nonfiction that I think I would be good at writing is conversational. I have always been really good at telling stories through dialogue. I believe I would be good at writing about topics such as events of importance in the past that I would be able to tie the dialogue into.