February 26, 2008
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I’m introducing creative nonfiction today to a skinny-ed Creative Writing class (4 of ‘em are in the play this week), and as I’m re-reading the chapters I read long ago when I created the course, I am reminded of why I was fascinated by creative nonfiction more than fiction.
“[...] you must locate and shape what is interesting in the messiness of real life” (4). “The aim is to make the readers experience that world, using the ‘I’ as a guide.” “[...] Robert Frost reminds us, ‘No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.’”
More later. Gotta run to class.
