Reflective Essay: What Is A Creative Nonfiction?

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When initially starting the nonfiction section, it took me, several classes, to decide what topic I was going to consider writing about for this assignment. However, throughout the unit and with the guidance of numerous effective exercises I narrowed down my topics and instantly started to write. However, as I wrote my creative nonfiction, my writing appeared quite dull with few images and details describing the setting. Consequently, as I revised my creative nonfiction, I started to add numerous details and images, however, my paragraphs began to become extremely lengthy. Furthermore, my paper lacked the suspense and build it required. However, throughout this unit and the workshop in class, I learned to shorten my paragraphs, add more images …show more content…
After class, I went home and shortened several of my paragraphs and actually split a few of my extremely long paragraphs.

Secondly, before the workshop, advice from Isaac and revising, my creative nonfiction seemed rather dull and possessed few images that described the setting or characters. However, after revising my paper I was able to add numerous images and details throughout my paper.

Furthermore, Isaac proposed that I should add more descriptive aspects to make several events have increased suspense and to add details to deliver the feeling as if you are within the story. After class, I was able to add several details that add suspense throughout my story, in many of the key sections that were lacking suspense and details, which made the paper much more appeal and desirable to ready.

In Conclusion, following the in-class workout and advice from definitely, I was able to add exercises images to my writing, build up suspense better, and shorten several of my paragraphs. Furthermore, many of the in-class examples and assignments greatly helped me with my creative nonfiction, and without the help of the numerous excerices my paper definetly wouldn't have come out as

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