Title: What Is Creative Nonfiction? Learn How to Write Creative Nonfiction - 2021 - MasterClass
Headings: What Is Creative Nonfiction? Learn How to Write Creative Nonfiction
What Is Creative Nonfiction? Learn How to Write Creative Nonfiction
What Is Creative Nonfiction?
What Are the Characteristics of Creative Nonfiction?
An Overview of Creative Nonfiction Subgenres
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Content: While travel writing may offer suggestions and practical information for travelers bound for a particular destination, the more often follow a narrative arch imbued by the author’s personal experience. Journalism. Journalism is a broad subgenre of nonfiction most regularly consumed in the form of newspapers and magazines, along with monthly journals, TV news reports, and more. Journalism reports on true events that typically (but not always) have relevance to a contemporary audience. Journalism can also take the form of books. This includes narrative nonfiction and true crime books. Some of these books, like Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich and Memphis Rent Party by Robert Gordon straddle the line between journalism and history. These books do not simply lay out dry facts about their respective subjects—the missed opportunities to tackle climate change and the Memphis music scene, respectively. Rather, journalistic creative nonfiction books create character portraits of real people involved in these topics, and tell narratives that allow readers to invest in the lives of these characters. Literary journalism can also delve into politics, as evidenced by books like Bush At War and Fear: