Today you shared some of your experiences with writing. I appreciated your stories - and your willingness to put them out there. It is definitely taking a risk to tell stories to strangers - and when you are writing there is always the potential that a "stranger" will read your work; hopefully this class is going to be a safe place to explore and test stories you want to send out into the world. It is a brave thing to be a writer.
We used that discussion to point out one of the basic features of creative nonfiction = the movement between detailed, specific narrative and reflective commentary. So that's a start. We will spend the first couple weeks of the course digging into what CNF is, how it is built, how it works, and what "moves" produce what kinds of effects.
For class Tuesday, we will meet in the computer lab on the first floor of CAS, next to the snack machines - near the Writing Center.
Read: Grealy, 23; Danticat, 89; Koesterbaum, 154 (in your text book) + check out the course blog
Write: send me an email from the account you want to use for the course
And: Bring your writing journal to class
Great class and see you on Tuesday.
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