Creative Nonfiction (Course Guide / Lisa Heise)

Dinty lives just on the edge of Philadelphia. He is deathly afraid of polar bears.

Dinty W. Moore talks about his unconventional, superstitious, comic, mindful and messy approach to teaching and practicing craft. | The Writer Website, Updated October 2018

"Kate felt bad about this revelation. She sensed it wasn't the way one was supposed to think or feel. She was conflicted, confused and entirely surprised by her own reaction. And that's a good place to begin writing. The French word assay, from which we came up with the word essay in the English language, means to try out, to seek an answer or solution, to attempt to make sense of something. Essayists are not pursuing ideas merely for the aromatic stew of words that might ensue. The center of the essay is some question or problem that the writer is trying to solve." | Writer's Digest. Jul/Aug2016, Vol. 96 Issue 5, p58-61. | MasterFILE Complete (EBSCO) (Library Database)

The article offers the author's insights on the relationship and conflict between religion and science. Topics discussed include the project Think Write Publish: Science & Religion which attempts to use creative nonfiction tools in exploring the idea that rationality and faith can coexist, human evolution and creation by God, and insights from biology teacher Jeff Imler and Baptist Deb Grove. | Issues in Science & Technology. Fall2017, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p79-85. | MasterFILE Complete (EBSCO) (Library Database)

"Nonfiction writers are not security video cameras hovering above a scene to capture a seemingly objective record. We are not court stenographers. We are artists. And we need to make art, an artifact, because even if sensory detail and dialogue were to somehow manage to be 99.9% accurate, the description will likely still fail to capture the true sense of how it felt, how it was experienced. Our actual lives are not experienced in an orderly fashion. Life does not come in sentences, paragraphs and pages, turned one at a time." | Website: Write Nonfiction Now, November 6. 2013

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it can also be funnier. Employ these 6 techniques in memoir and personal essay to cue readers’ chuckles. |Writer's Digest. Jul/Aug2018, Vol. 98 Issue 5, p34-37. 4p. | MasterFILE Complete (EBSCO) (Library Database)