Invention writing

I believe for my long essay I would like to touch on my relationship with my mother. Her and I are extremely different in personalities and my mother has always been the type of mother to believe that because we are her children we must always listen to her and respect her. Although I do agree with that, I also needed her to understand that I am no longer her little girl and that as I grow older, I grow more feelings, an opinion, sometimes I can be right, and most of all I want to be heard. The ongoing relationship with my mother has continued to get better day by day as we become closer, but I can't say it was an easy journey. We have had our share of arguments, disputes and luckily, agreements. So I would like to start my first story with the beginning of my teen years when the "problems" began and then continue each story in a time-line sense and end with the status of our relationship currently now that I am going to be 22 years old.

My own view of Creative Nonfiction

Creative nonfiction seems to be a form of writing that changes as time goes on and more writers address this criteria and add/take back their own thoughts, ideas, memories, and theories. Although I do not have much experience with writing creative nonfiction, from reading and having a few classes in the past month, I believe that creative nonfiction cannot be learned through nonstop research on the genre/topic and reading various essays, but through actually writing and doing so on your own. So because I do not have any experience in this genre, I can not say I have a complete understanding of the concept. However, I will not say that I have no understanding at all, because I do have some idea on what I BELIEVE it can be. Since I am a writer I am constantly imaging things; thoughts, memories, new ideas, etc., so I believe with some writing of my own and new experiences I will be able to grasp my own ways, techniques and definition(s) of creative nonfiction.

Features of Creative Nonfiction

Features of Creative Nonfiction

Essential:

1. Personal stories
2. Emotion
3. Details
4. Length

I believe the difference between long and short forms is that the short forms have less emotion due to the fact that they are not as lengthy. Although they still have a sense of emotion, whether it is happy or sad, etc., they are not as detailed as long forms and I am not able to connect as easily to short forms of creative nonfiction as I am with long forms.