Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

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What is creative nonfiction? We might think of nonfiction as memoir, essay, philosophy, journalism, travel or nature writing, true crime, technical writing, history, biography and so on; in other words, writing wherein the ostensible intention is to provide information to the reader. But add the 'creative,' and now the writer has the opportunity to utilize other tools of storytelling we might feel belong to the world of fiction: e.g., characterization, point of view, speculation, dialogue, scene, figurative language, all the aspects of craft which create a literary experience for the reader, in addition to conveying the facts and figures of traditional nonfiction.