Creative Nonfiction

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Entering the dimly lit café she pulls open the door, slowly. Soft jazz plays in the background. Black high heels, paired with a green blouse, and a pencil skirt drapes her frame as she walks to a table. A gold chain with a diamond cross pendant dangles from her neck. It provides the faith, she needs to believe in on the days that are rough. Today, is not one of those days, she thinks, as she holds onto the cross rubbing it tightly.

He must be in the café, she thinks as she looks around. Her eye's glaze over the room. People at tables sip there coffee, and eat their lunch while paying her no mind. She sits down at an empty table. 

In his mind flashbacks invade. Gripping the tree her hands hold on in a tight grasp, he clutchs her hips while his, "anyone sitting here?" the woman asks. What a sultry voice, an accent of an exotic destination, he thinks, while sinking back to reality.......

An example of a piece of a story I wrote, in this genre creative nonfiction is one's own way of telling a story. And doing it in a way of piecing scenes together, in this genre you want people to hear the characters, and see the scenes being presented. With hearing and seeing the character in the story one can create their own impression of the character by the way the character speaks or by the actions presented by the character or the mood of the story.

What is creative nonfiction?

• It is better to show then tell, is the basic building blocks of the creative nonfiction genre, a way of writing in scenes. The writer uses real life situations that are not made up, and writes stories presented in a creative way. 
•  The cardinal rule of creative nonfiction is, "You can't make this stuff up!"
•  Writing in scenes represents the difference between showing and telling. The lazy, uninspired writer will tell the reader about a subject, place, or personality, but the creative nonfiction writer will show that subject, place, or personality, vividly, memorably—and in action. In scenes.

Do you have a story to tell? Of course you do, we all do, as we all are living our life experiencing things everyday, so why not tell a story creatively. Try it today, write in scenes piece your story together with convo, paint your characters with words and set the scene with mood, tell your story with creative nonfiction today. Go!

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