Creative Nonfiction Resources
Elements of Creative Nonfiction
Personal Presence
Most creative nonfiction pieces are personal to the writer. Readers are taken on a journey through the writer’s mind, feelings, and personality.
Self-Discovery and Self-Exploration
Creative nonfiction enables the writer to explore while writing, not knowing what will happen. It allows the writer to be tentative, reflective, and capable of revealing a mind at work. It frees the writer to go on a journey of self-discovery.
Flexibility
There are no structural limitations in creative nonfiction. The writer can be inventive from the sentence level all the way to the architecture of an entire piece.
Veracity
Creative nonfiction is factual. The writing is based on a real experience, whether it was lived or observed.
Use of Literary Devices
Scenes, flashbacks, plot, dialogue, characters, suspense, and lyrical language are just some of the literary devices that creative nonfiction writers use.