"There are two basic approaches to creative nonfiction," according to Lee Gutkind, author of You Can't Make this Stuff Up, - memoir/personal essay and immersion nonfiction. I get how immersion is creative nonfiction but the memoir/personal essay part still remains unclear as to how that genre could be under the creative nonfiction umbrella. Gutkind writes that creative nonfiction, referred to [...]
Now before you start scanning this post looking for juicy, eye-catching tidbits suggesting anything sexual, let me tell you this question has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with luck. Or is it really luck? In a previous post I talked about being asked what it is I "do." And, in turn, I ask others what it [...]
I've been writing now for over ten years. When I started, I didn't have much to say, but I had much to say. What I mean is, I had many thoughts I wanted to express but I couldn't seem to get it all down. I knew in the end, there was a story, a lesson, perhaps. And my challenge was [...]