Creative nonfiction encompasses true stories that utilize factual information, personal experiences, and literary techniques. It often includes elements such as character development, narrative structure, and vivid imagery, making it an art form that combines reality with fiction's storytelling devices. Major types include personal essays, memoirs, literary journalism, autobiographies, and travel writing, among others.

1. Creative Nonfiction

2. Nonfiction
• Nonfiction is a wide kind of compositions that
incorporates all books that are not established
in an anecdotal account.
• Creative nonfiction can be classified in history
and biography; it might be instructional; it can
offer publication and humor; and it can mull
over philosophical requests.
• The core of nonfiction is FACT.

3. • Writing about personal experiences, real
people, or events focusing on facts instead
of inventive substance, nonfiction can be a
wellspring of instructive and real readings.
• Much the same as creative writing and
other composing sorts, creative nonfiction
drives you to find and get subjects and
points being conveyed by writers utilizing
their methods and styles recorded as hard
copy.

4. • Try to activate your prior knowledge
about the elements and techniques
of creative nonfiction.
• Are they just the same with the
elements and techniques that you
have learned in your Creative
Writing class?

5. • When you are reading or encountering stories
that are based on reality or sources came from
the truth, you can simply tell that it is creative
nonfiction.
◦Fact. The core of nonfiction is fact. Factual
information shall be included in the piece and
not a made-up information.
 ◦Extensive research. Conducting and gathering
information through research provide accurate
and reliable information that you may use in
writing your nonfiction write-up.

6. ◦Reportage/reporting. Documenting the
gathered information like interview and
reports helps you keep records and files
for future usages.
◦Personal experience and personal
opinion. Since the main source of
contents are based from the personal
experiences and personal insights of the
writer, it makes an easy way to write a
piece.

7. ◦Explanation/Exposition. Explaining the
story to the reader is expected to attain
the objectives of the piece.
◦Essay format. The outputs in creative
nonfiction are often in essay format.
Examples: Procedural Essay, Personal
Essay, Literary essays, descriptive essay.

8. o Creative nonfiction is the literature of fact. Yet,
creative nonfiction writer utilizes many of the
literary devices of fiction writing. The following
is a list of the most common literary devices
that writers incorporate into their nonfiction
writing:
 Storytelling/narration. The goal, challenges and
obstacles, a turning point, and resolution of
the story shall be delivered spontaneously to
help the readers understand the flow of the
story.

9. Character/Characterization. In a nonfiction
story, characters are also important. The main
character serves as the core or central idea of
the storyline. The story revolves to the
experiences of the main character with the
help of the other characters.
Setting, atmosphere and scene. The writer
creates scenes that are action -oriented;
include dialogue; and contain vivid
descriptions.

10. Plot and plot structure. These are the
main events that make up the story. In a
personal essay, there might be only one
event. In a memoir, there are often
several significant events.
Figurative language. The use of figurative
languages helps the writer to provide
aesthetics to the piece. It gives vibrant
effect to the story.

11. Imagery. The use of different sensory images
helps also to add color in writing a nonfiction
piece.
Angle/Point of view. Most of the time
nonfiction adheres with the use of First Person
Point of View since the experiences are being
told.
Dialogue. This can help to make the story run
within the characters.
Theme. It is the central idea or universal truth
presented in the work.

12. The 5 R’s of
Creative Nonfiction
• Lee Gutkind, who is a writer, professor, and
expert on creative nonfiction, wrote an essay
called “The Five R’s of Creative Nonfiction.” In
this essay, he identified five essential elements
of creative nonfiction.
1.Real life 2. Reflection
3. Research 4. Reading
5. Writing.

13. The 5 R’s of
Creative Nonfiction
1. Creative nonfiction uses real life
elements.
The writer creates concepts of a
story using the vital and real
information about the subject which
can be associated on close attributes
of the real experiences.

14. The 5 R’s of
Creative Nonfiction
2. Creative nonfiction lets the writer to
engage on his personal reflection about the
subject.
After gathering information, the writer needs
to scrutinize and analyze the gathered
information. Assessing and considering his
ideologies and beliefs. Through this, it will
help the writer to be more factual based.

15. The 5 R’s of
Creative Nonfiction
3. Creative nonfiction instructs the author to
do a complete research.
The author needs to find out relevant and vital
information about the subject. The writer needs to finish
investigating and weighing information that will be
included in the story. Finishing auxiliary examination will
lead to create a complete and substantial contents. For an
instance, looking into an individual diary, or meeting a
companion or relative, to guarantee that the data is
honest and genuine.

16. The 5 R’s of
Creative Nonfiction
4. The fourth aspect of creative
nonfiction is reading.
Reading while conducting research is
not enough. The writer must recall
the components through reading to
improve and make some
modifications.

17. The 5 R’s of
Creative Nonfiction
5. The final element of creative
nonfiction is writing.
Writing imaginative true to life is both a
workmanship and specialty. The craft of
inventive true to life necessitates that the
essayist utilizes his gifts, senses, innovative
capacities, and creative mind to compose
paramount imaginative true to life.

18. What are the types of creative
nonfiction?

19. Types of
Creative Nonfiction
• Creative nonfiction always deals on
reality. Reality can be about using the
topics like the use of individual
encounter, occasion, or issue in the
open eye. There are different classes
or categories to consider in creative
nonfiction such as the individual
article, journal, and life account.

20. Types of
Creative Nonfiction
1. Personal Essay
The writer uses information that is based on
personal experience or a single event, which
leads in significant personal meaning, or a
lesson learned that he encountered.
The writer uses the first person “I.”

21. Types of
Creative Nonfiction
2. Memoir
The writer creates a real story within a time
or period of life, one that contributed a
significant personal meaning and truth.
The writer uses the first person “I” in the
story.

22. Types of
Creative Nonfiction
3. Literary Journalism Essay
The writer creates an output on an issue or
topic using the understood literary devices,
such as the elements of fiction and figurative
languages.

23. Types of
Creative Nonfiction
4. Autobiography. The writer writes his/her own life
story, from birth to the present, using the first person
“I.”
5. Travel Writing. The writer creates article narration
about travel using literary devices and figurative
languages.
6. Food writing. The writer crafts stories about food
and cuisine using literary techniques that mat lead to a
review and recommendation.
7. Profiles. The writer constructs life stories of people

24. Creative Essay
Any short, non-fiction text written with
specific attention to its aesthetic qualities
and presentation that is written from the
point of view of the author. It focuses on a
personal experience that is a turning point,
a change in direction, an event that has
significant meaning, and also shares a
universal truth with readers.

25. What is a Personal Narrative Essay?
• based on memory of an event or experience or
moment in time that had significant meaning to
you
• tell a true story about a turning point in your life
• the event or experience actually happened to
you
• look back into your memory, to an earlier time
in your life, and unearth true stories that had
significant meaning to you

26. Inspiration
• Memory. Mining your memory for turning points in your life. Turning
points, such as a job loss, illness, disease, death, first encounters.
• Family life. Reflecting on family-What family events had significant
meaning? What do you remember about family life?
• Spiritual journey. Write about your spiritual journey.
• Place. Write about home. What is home? Travel experiences. The
natural world, such as hiking, biking, camping, exploring the
wilderness.
• Popular culture. Write about film, music, fiction, poetry,
photography, art—and how it has impacted you. What memories do
you have?
• The global village. Write about the world in which you live, such as
the environment.

27. Other Ideas
• Journey, quest, pilgrimage
• Mysteries and investigations
• Rituals, games, performances, events
Dig up memories about a myriad of topics–from
toys to technology, to milestones to
accomplishments, things that have significantly
affected you.

28. Structure
• Problem (exposition)- Your goal is to describe a problem in vivid
details. What is the significant event that lead to a problem?
• Struggle (rising action)-This problem creates conflict, which can be
external (the outside world) and internal (within your mind or
psyche) obstacles or setbacks.
• Epiphany (climax)- Your problem and struggle results in an epiphany
or flood of new understanding. The epiphany transforms your story
from merely an anecdote to a personal narrative that has significant
meaning to you, and shared meaning with others.
• Resolution- What you have done differently since you had the
epiphany.
(Does not necessarily have to be in this order—be creative)

29. • Creative essays are written to express, render, and
entertain
• frequently do not follow a standard structure
• designed to move the emotions
• should be rich with imagery, modifiers, and fresh
language, and should vary their syntax
• Usually told from the first-person voice
• make sure that it tells a story
• the writer should structure and present his essay in
the way that best reflects the emotional timbre of
the essay
• should attempt to accurately and honestly relate
these personal ideas

30. Readers Expect You to Share
• Your thoughts
• Your feelings
• Your opinions
• Personal Reflections

31. Keep in mind that a creative essay does
not strive to provide answers to questions or
even to necessarily explain a particular concept.
Rather, a creative essay is meant to help create
sense of the world and to raise questions that
the reader may wish to explore further.
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