Creative nonfiction

1. My hypothetical class is a creative writing class for high school seniors (17-18 years old) and there are fourteen students in the class. The class has a good grasp on writing poetry, minimal experience writing non-fiction and fiction stories with and without dialogue, and are extremely comfortable sharing their pieces with me (the teacher) and their classmates. They do not however, have experience with merging fiction and non-fiction, so that is a major accomplishment goal with this piece.…

This has been such a challenging course for me personally as I’m such a logical person that has always been more of a research analysis typewriter that any level of creative writing is something that is so baffling to me that I put myself into a worrying stint when I signed up for this course. However, now at the end of the semester, I’m utterly glad that I took this course because while this level of writing is very different from my normal range, it helped me to see such a unique form of…

I started writing about six years ago, but I never seriously thought of becoming a writer until last year. When I was younger, it was always more of a hobby, something I did that other people said I was good at, and I was like, “Okay, I’ll keep doing this.” I liked doing it but I always thought just liking it wasn’t enough, but now that I’m older I’m starting to realize the act of writing isn’t the most important part for me, it’s the storytelling that has tethered me to this profession. The…

assignments. Creative writing allowed me to experiment more with the second camp of writing. The majority of assignments in this class being set up this way was something that took some adjustment for me as a writer with me having spent most of my prior experience…

started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one,” (Van Cleave , Ryan, et al). This loss of words and inspirations strickens the author with loss of creative process and stop the production of their lifeline: their own writing; through interviews, a couple of writers have explained how they deal with writers block and how they find joy in working. The first…

writing. It is quite repetitive and can be brain draining. As a result, I seldom feel creative enough to want to write outside of work anymore. 2. Have you ever taken any creative writing courses in the past or done any type of creative writing on your own? In what genres (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, etc.) do you like to write? What kinds of subjects do you like to write about? Yes, I took a creative writing class in undergrad.…

portfolio in search for identifying my voice that I had created within our class together. After examining my work throughout this course I came to realize that my voice and writing has had a drastic change to my previous writings. Before taking Creative Writing I had worked on many other papers and had taken a separate course similar to this; however, the papers written in those classes didn’t compare to what I had previously written. Looking at my drafts now I can see that I have been able to…

begin to see our life through their eyes, not ours”(Andre Aciman 6). This helps their creative process because they do not remember the events as biased, and remove themselves from the situation to better understand what really happened. They use this technique and apply it to their writing, allowing the reader and themselves to see a more objective view of a situation. On the other hand, in fiction or nonfiction, an author can and will allow themselves to be dedicated and biased in the text in…

some regards but lacking in others. Although the Aims OWL has been updated as of October of 2015, it had not been updated for over two years before then. Seeing that Merk is striving for his masters in creative writing, it would make sense for him to incorporate what he has learned into a “Creative Writing” section of the OWL to keep it updated and full of information. However, the OWL does have excellent links which remain current and reliable. All of the OWL’s information is up-to-date and…

strategies to make writing easier so I could get it out of the way faster, but I never really learned to love it. By the time I reached my sophomore year of high school I still strongly disliked narrative or creative writing, but I could tolerate, and sometimes even enjoy, writing essays about nonfiction subjects, such as nuclear energy and its application in space exploration or the state of foreign affairs between Russia and The United States of America. Throughout this semester I have…