Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller

Author:Brenda Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2019-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

A Few Caveats About Writing from Life

Creative nonfiction is a tricky business. On the one hand, you have the challenge—and the thrill—of turning real life into art. But on the other hand, you have to deal with all the issues that come attached with that “real life.” A fiction writer is able to create the set amount of characters necessary for the story’s action; can you do the same thing with the characters you encounter in your own life and research? When fiction writers need dialogue, they write dialogue. As a nonfiction writer, can you make up dialogue you don’t remember verbatim? When you’re writing essays based on research, how much of your imagination can you use? Does “nonfiction” mean “no fiction”?

Also, how do you create a piece inhabited by the self without becoming self-centered? And how do you negotiate all the ethical and technical obstacles that come with writing from real life?

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