CNF characteristics

• FORCHE AND GERARD 2001

  A fact-based writing that remains compelling and diminished by the passage of time that has at heart an interested in during human values for mostly fidelity to accuracy to truthfulness.
• Creative nonfiction requires the skill of the storyteller and the research ability of the reporter (CHEENEY, 2000)
• Characteristics

  • There's a visible subject and a deeper subject
  • It is not necessarily timely, although it might be - tension between the urgency of the event and the timelessness of its meaning
  • It has a narrative frame such a scenes character dialogue and action oriented
  • It covers reflection - meaning "finished" thought, finally; the sense that it has been penetrating
  • It captures an attention to the craft of writing
• Qualities of creative nonfiction according to Dupuis 2018


  1. It writes about real life
  2. It must be based on extensive research
  3. It covers the narrative element
  4. It includes personal reflection
  5. It is learned by reading
• Is a nonfiction prose which utilizes the techniques and strategies of a fiction. It combines the authority of literature and authority of fact (Gutkind, 1997)