CNF

Creative Non-Fiction. It's not really my thing. I don't read any unless it's required by a class (not often). Last year, I took a workshop on creative non-fiction. It was a good experience, but I found that writing non-fiction about myself is uncomfortable. It's too personal. It doesn't have to be really personal, but that's the kind of stuff that comes out when I write it. And I'm not really ready to share myself like that with an audience.

For those who can, more power to them. Today I went to a reading of other students currently taking the CNF class. They were all well-written and funny. As always, I'm impressed by people who can (seemingly) share very personal issues easily. I also liked how their stories were each able to deviate from the main topic into related stories of personal influence that brought the focus back to the main issue again.

It made me aware that I should focus on doing this more often in my writing, if I don't already. Most often, I simply write without any specific ideas about how to stylize the stories. Sometimes I round up the time and energy to edit. I do so love editing. On the downside, it almost never ends.