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Creative Nonfiction: the Representation of the representation of true events.  Creative Nonfiction is a translation of news. 

For example, if one claims a cupcake should only have 17 sprinkles on it, CNF would challenge the context and truth of the claim as well as the medium in which the information is communicated. 

This challenge offers a new perspective and invites the reader to form their own interpretation and opinion.

Therefore, historical events can take on new meaning, broadening global thinking and narrowing ideological gaps that result in conflict between groups of people. When we look back on history we learn that it repeats itself over and over again, when will we finally learn?

 

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Creative nonfiction translates the news.

People are mean at holiday parties.

Do their perspectives matter? 

Only if it’s their truth.

But who has the authority to decide which perspectives matter? 

Elites. Guns. Water.

 

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Creative nonfiction matters because the narratives we believe to be true can become false by a shift in perspective.

Media struggles to represent events.

While creative nonfiction shows news in a new light.

Like bar fights at night. Where people and language convene without water.

But hey, you think, if it’s night, it’s night.

Or is it?

 

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To understand the subjective truth of another’s perspective.

Translating what is represented into what you perceive and ensuring you can always see the distinction between the two.

The context highlights falsehoods being shown.

To claim your authority over the media.

News is a powerful took that transports information across the seas.

But through the news we must identify specific narratives that may prove to be only 30% fact and 70% fiction.

 

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15 people, 15 versions of the capital T Truth.

15 vanilla cupcakes, uneaten

15 translations of water

15 bad introductions

15 tell me a story (I know you’re not boring)

15 folks now snoring

15 pairs of hands pouring out their false truths

 

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Question the bakers makin’ your cakes.

You will be consuming them regardless so understand the events that lead up to its creation.

Knowing how many cups of sugar the baker actually used versus what they said they used can make all the difference.

The same goes for the news you consumer. 

It’s important to know where the ideas are coming from.

Sometimes, authority will manipulate you into thinking you have a delicious double chocolate chip cookie when, alas, it is just an oatmeal raisin.

Who likes an oatmeal raisin?

Nobody, unless it is translated into a sweet sugar cookie.

 

4.

Creative nonfiction is a form of writing that challenges narrative form.

By doing so, the authority in media is questioned and a new perspective assembled.

This new viewpoint can change the reader’s idea of truth and challenges them to reconsider their own views.

In this way, ideas and opinions become fluid between people.

People and places affected by the representation they are shown, the story changes between translations.

False events still provide a context.

 

1.

You cannot control the representation of the world, but you can control how you perceive it.

The narrative shown by the media is narrow in scope, whose interests are at stake?

People with authority may not dictate your representation.

Creative nonfiction is the exploration of truth.

But can truth be subjective given different contexts?

Can one question one’s perspective?

Creative nonfiction allows us to see that things deemed “nonfiction” can actually be so far in someone’s subjective viewpoint that it can basically become False and still remain in that genre.