Although i have completed only a handful of the assignments i feel that i have done a sufficient amount to be able to reflect on my work.
Well, originally, i used to think that non fiction meant that every word written was true, that all that the author said was supposed to have happened. After the lesson on Truman Capote, i thought maybe there was room for fiction in a story "inspired" or "based" on "true events."
I mostly thought of bios, auto-bios, memoirs, history, political writing, hunter thompson and gonzo, bukowski and his dirty old man column. I was unsure that i could write "real" stories, but, back to Capote, you can embellish. I guess the source has to be a true event or story, but the details, which might or might not be fiction, remake or relive that true event, better than let say if you watched the coverage on the news.
I feel my writing has changed a bit, some of the assignments were right up my alley and actually gave me the opportunity to write something i had been wanting to write for a while now, and hell, i'm getting a grade for it, so that was nice.
I'm used to writing short stories, based on personal events and feelings i have or had, but exaggerated to the point where it becomes fiction. Writing non fiction, with myself still as the main character, is not that different from my fiction writing, but less extreme i guess. I feel sort of like Bukowski, who wrote basically biographical stories and novels, but yet are always categorized as fiction.
The blog assignments have been helping, although they pile on top of the assignments, they are an easy grade and are also a great way to see what other people are writing, their thoughts, insight, feedback, two cents, and style are all greatly appreciated.
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