The “creative” in creative nonfiction doesn’t mean you make things up. Nonfiction means not fiction: stories constructed from actual events, real people, genuine places, and the author’s authentic thoughts and observations. The creativity comes in the method of storytelling, a careful and skillful application of literary techniques such as scene, detail, point-of-view, metaphor and imagery, showing not telling, and rich language. - Dinty W. Moore in “5 ‘Moore’ Tips for Writing Creative Nonfiction
http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/5-tips-for-writing-creative-nonfiction-moore/
Dinty W. Moore is the editor of Brevity and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction
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