Tag: Creative Nonfiction
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Stylistic Choices in Creative Nonfiction, Interview Pt 2
But why do this? Because by playing with structure and format (that TV show and the Superman comic book), I’m better able to draw both myself as well as the reader inside the actual experience. Everything we write needs to have its own voice, its own tone, its own structure to best work in conjunction…
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Writing a Memoir Penetrates the Fog of Memory
As a slow, methodical memoir writer, I find incidents buried under years of forgetting. Like an archeologist, I extricate them from the rubble of details and wonder what value each artifact might offer. I place them into the context of the book of my life, where they acquire deeper meaning.
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Memoirs Connect Us by Sharing Our Hidden Worlds
I looked around the room. Everyone was relaxed. I realized that reading my story had not upset them or turned me into a pariah. Paradoxically instead of increasing my shame, sharing the story dispelled it.
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Show Don’t Tell: Difference Between Fiction and Memoir
However, if we adhere too closely to techniques that work in fiction, we miss important opportunities to help readers understand our authentic, real-life experience. To develop a strong memoir writing voice, consider the differences between fiction and memoir writing. Here are three areas in which the forms differ.
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Grace Notes and Self Confidence Tracy Seeley Interview Pt. 5
I love anecdotes that momentarily seem out of the main line of the story because they remind us that the world is a richly interconnected place, thick with story and meaning even over there in the margins.
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Memoir writer on conforming, rewriting, publishing
Small presses, too, though, want to know how your book is like others that have gone before (and gone on to succeed), as well as how it’s a new and exciting, one-of-a-kind thing. It’s a funny kind of challenge to describe your work in both terms. But My Ruby Slippers does belong to a tradition…
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Stretching the Memoir Form, Tracy Seeley Interview, Part 2
The edict to “show, not tell” does a serious disservice to creative nonfiction writers, and to the genre. It’s not the same as fiction, even though it may share many techniques, and it shouldn’t be forced to be fiction made out of “true facts.”
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Revealing Death and Other Courageous Acts of Life
Then it was my job to turn the audience’s attention back to their own goals. I realized there wasn’t enough time to conduct a real workshop, but in the small amount of time available, I wanted to convince everyone that the problems of writing a memoir are solvable. “When you look back through your memories,…
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