Creative non fiction

• The author's personal experience with the subject matter is used to create an emotional connection between the reader and the story.
• Creative nonfiction can be written about any topic, but it must have a strong narrative structure that engages readers emotionally.
• The literary journalist enjoys greater freedom in researching a story and greater flexibility in telling it, often refocusing in an instant to take us beneath the surface and into the psyche, either a character's or the writer's own.
• Stories stay with us and may even be read better over time.
• The best characterization of literary journalism may ultimately be the definition that Ezra Pound gave for literature itself: "news that stays news."
• The eye of the writer is an omnipresent lens, no more and no less intrusive than the man behind it.
• There is a wide variety of autobiographical narratives, ranging from the intimate writings made during life that were not necessarily intended for publication to the formal autobiography.
• An autobiography is an account of one's own life, generally a continuous narrative of major events.
• An autobiography can also be defined as the biography of oneself narrated by oneself.
• Diaries and journals as autobiographical narratives have been very popular for thousands of years, and have been deployed by different types of people for writing and recording personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
• In actual practice, journals are more intimate than diaries; however, both diaries and journals are generally kept private.
• The testimonio is a subgenre of trauma literature, which came into being as a response to the mindless persecutions and heartless abuses committed on a massive scale by those who are in positions of power on subaltern or oppressed groups of people due to their differences in race, class, and gender.
• The blog and the Facebook status report are byproducts of postmodernism, specifically the World Wide Web or the Internet.
• Natural history is a literature mainly concerned with the description of flora and fauna, and their evolution throughout the millennia.
• Nature writing is a literary genre that celebrates pristine landscapes and exotic plants and animals, and highlights the abuses by mankind on the natural environment and its dire consequences for future generations.
• Natural philosophy refers to prescientific observations and meditations on mankind's relationship with nature and the universe.
• Nature writing, the broadest term, encompasses all forms of literary types and forms whose primary concern is the natural world and how human beings respond to its loveliness or degradation.
• Nature writing includes field guides, ecopoetry, and other forms.
• Environmental writing is proactive literature whose driving force is the conservation or preservation of Mother Nature usually written in the idyllic or romantic mode.
• Reflective essay is a kind of personal narrative essay whose main intention is to analyze significance of a past event through serious thought or consideration from the vantage point of the present.
• Travel writing usually includes a narration of the journey undertaken by the narrator from his or her point of origin to the eventual destination, with all the hazards and inconveniences encountered along the way.
• Memory, the repository of sensory information, facts and figures that have been accumulated since infancy through personal experiences, is the major source when writing a reflective essay.
• Food writers consider food not only as a necessary substance for survival, but as a manifestation of culture as well.
• Food writing is a type of creative nonfiction that focuses on gustatory delights or disasters while simultaneously narrating an interesting story, as well as sharing an insight or two about the human condition.
• Reflection as a human endeavor is a dying art form, since most people are busy doing other things which they consider more worthwhile than mere musing, even if men and women are supposed to be contemplative by nature and in search for the meaning of life.
• Travel writing is a form of creative nonfiction that describes the narrator's experiences in foreign places.
• Subjective description expresses the writer's personal feeling and impression about the subject matter, creating a certain tone, mode or atmosphere while emphasizing a certain point.
• The reflective essay combines the writer's own subjective experiences and observations with careful assessment and analysis from an objective perspective.
• The importance of the reflective essay can be expressed in this way: "In an essay based on your personal experiences, you have an opportunity to review your past, to evaluate it in order to discover its significance to you, and in doing so to make your past interesting to your readers."
• Many people think that diaries and journals are the same, especially since writers tend to use the two terms interchangeably.
• The diary as a form of creative nonfiction is a quotidian or day-to-day record of the specific events that have transpired in the life of its author and is ideally kept on a daily basis.
• In very few diarists include all the entries they have written for a certain period when they publish their works in book form.
• Diaries typically include a rundown of the author's routine activities, personal observations, feelings and reflections in his or her search for the significant.
• The diary in its rawest and unedited form, therefore, seems to be the most honest attempt of an author to capture daily reality as he or she perceives it to be, if his or her main intention in writing is to tell the truth.
• The journal as a form of autobiographical writing is generally more intimate than a diary; and even if it if the journal includes daily activities, it also contains personal opinions of the journal writer concerning certain intriguing intades regarding the impressions up and how specific persons have affected him or her during the course of the day.
• A journal is typically expressive and confidential-a receptacle of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings-and is generally meant for private consumption and not meant for publication.
• A journal has no prescribed format, does not necessarily need careful planning, thinking or editing, since it can be a "catch all" of every thought and feeling that the author has decided to record without restrictions.
• Journals need not be written on a daily basis, but can be written more often than daily or less often, depending on the writer's needs to express his or her thoughts and feelings.
• Journals may contain other things alongside the written text, like sketches, drawings, photographs, short poems, quotable quotes, etc.
• Facebook initially intended for the exclusive use of Harvard students so that they may know one another and get in touch more easily-the term "face book" after all originally refers to a printed or web directory in American universities containing their respective students' names and pictures distributed by school officials in the beginning of each academic year with the main aim of helping students become more familiar with one another.