Creative Non- Fiction

• Forms of creative nonfiction

  • Autobiography
  • Biography
  • Blog
  • Literary Journalism/Reportage
  • Personal Narratives
  • Reflective Essay
  • Testimonio
  • Travelogue
  • True Narrative
• Personal Narratives


  To tell one special memory of your life
• Blog


  To create your personal website or social media account and share your ongoing adventures
• Biography


  To tell the rags-to-riches story of Manny Pacquiao
• Travelogue


  To share about your experiences about the tourist spots in your region
• Reflective Essay


  To share how you solved a problem and the realizations that you have earned from the experience
• Personal Narrative

  To narrate how a seminar that you have attended changed your life
• Literary Journalism


  To creatively retell a news that you have witnessed while going home
• Biography


  To write the life story of the president
• Blog


  To publish about your food reviews in your social media account
• Autobiography


  To narrate your own life story
• Personal Narratives


  The purpose of this is to describe a time or a series of events in the writer's life including the writer's insights
• Fiction


  In this genre, the information to be used in writing can just be invented or contrived
• Memoirs


  These are real stories of the writer's relationship with a person, place or events that also includes the writer's insights and feelings toward the relationship
• Creative Non-fiction

  This is any work that is drawn from the imaginative reconstruction and creative recreation of life by the writer
• First Person


  Memoirs are often told in this point of view
• Biography

  This is a work classified as creative nonfiction
• Creative Non-fiction

  This is the imaginative recreation and reconstruction of life
• Reflective Essay


  This include the writer's contemplation or realization on his/her experience
• A - A travelogue requires the writer to describe his or her travel experiences

  vividly and create imagery in the mind of the readers. Blogs are only intended for food concepts.
• D An autobiography uses third person point of view. A biography utilizes the first person point of view.
• C Personal and true narratives are based on real life events. Personal narratives focus on a topic through the lens of the personal experiences of the narrator.
• B Reflective essays focus on narrating someone else’s life. A travel experience once it is published in a personal website is considered a travel blog.
• D Biographies and autobiographies focus on single events in life. Testimonios contain an account of experiences of a person shared by another person.
• C A reportage presents facts in a literary way. Reflective essays can be crafted based on any moment in one’s life that instills lessons
• A Reflective essays, testimonies, and personal narratives are autobiographical in nature. A true narrative only tells personal experiences.
• A - A written work is called a personal narrative if the author shares his or her experience of an event in his or her life. Someone else’s moment in his or her life written by another person is a true narrative.
• C- Writing creative nonfiction requires facts as basic information. Writing styles differ in creative nonfiction.
• B- True narratives do not necessarily contain facts. Real life lessons can be communicated in personal and reflective narratives.