What is Creative Writing Non-fiction?
What is Creative Writing Non-fiction? Creative Non-fiction is a branch of writing that employs the literary techniques usually associated with fiction or poetry to report on actual persons,places, or events. "Creative nonfiction is fact-based writing that remains compelling, undiminished by the passage of time, that has at heart an interest in enduring human values: foremost a fidelity to accuracy, to truthfulness." (Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard, Introduction, Writing Creative Nonfiction. Story Press, 2001) Here’s what is written as a definition for creative writing in Wikipedia: “Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems. Writing for the screen and stage, screenwriting and playwriting respectively, typically have their ...