WRITING VARIETIES OF NONFICTION: THE EXAMINED LIFE: MEMOIR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND THE PERSONAL ESSAY W9131
Explore how to shape and refine the raw material of our lives into nonfiction narratives by examining a diversity of voices and genres, including memoirs, personal essays and journals. Participants also consider the relationship between fiction and nonfiction. What distinguishes them from each other? Is it enough that something happened? What fidelity do we owe to the facts? And, how does the writer of nonfiction make use of such fictional elements as plot, dialogue, setting and narrative stance? Discussing published work and our own writing guides participants as they plumb their lives for the stories that reside there.
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