Written 26 October 2016
I jotted down a quote from a collection of essays my Creative Nonfiction Workshop has been reading:
"Or maybe the essay is just a conditional form of literature--less a genre in its own right than an attitude that's assumed in the midst of another genre" (The Next American Essay).
This sort of goes along with my previous post about choosing to concentrate in poetry, rather than fiction or nonfiction. My sentiments about poetry are reflected in this quote: the versatility of a literary skill or genre is crucial to writing and to the writer.
I briefly spoke about how nonfiction, for me, is completely introspective, even if my entire essay is about another person or people. The essay is almost more of a mindset, an introspective mindset in my case, that one adopts while writing about something else. In my own nonfiction writing, I find myself wondering and writing how something or someone affected me, despite my intentions of narrating a circumstance outside myself.
In any case, this post is meant to promote nonfiction as a concentration and a genre, and the creative essay as a must for writers at one point in their careers. My writing in that class had me finding out so much about myself that I contemplated a career in nonfiction to see what other discoveries the essay has in store for me.
This sort of goes along with my previous post about choosing to concentrate in poetry, rather than fiction or nonfiction. My sentiments about poetry are reflected in this quote: the versatility of a literary skill or genre is crucial to writing and to the writer.
I briefly spoke about how nonfiction, for me, is completely introspective, even if my entire essay is about another person or people. The essay is almost more of a mindset, an introspective mindset in my case, that one adopts while writing about something else. In my own nonfiction writing, I find myself wondering and writing how something or someone affected me, despite my intentions of narrating a circumstance outside myself.
In any case, this post is meant to promote nonfiction as a concentration and a genre, and the creative essay as a must for writers at one point in their careers. My writing in that class had me finding out so much about myself that I contemplated a career in nonfiction to see what other discoveries the essay has in store for me.
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