Much like last week’s blog post, I’ll be creating a scene depicted from my life but this time with added dialogue and symbolism. The use of dialogue and symbolism is important in creative nonfiction writing because it helps develop context and underlying subtext to make a piece of writing with just simple action and description blossom into a full blown story. An example of a scene that strongly represents those two elements is called, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway.
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It’s week 3 in my lovely English 100 class and this week I was assigned to depict a scene in my life through text and to describe my surroundings at that point in time. In this post, you’ll read a detailed, little moment from my life taken out of my memory, I thought was worth sharing with you. If you want to learn more about writing scenes and what exactly I mean by a scene, check out these readings:
What Is Creative Nonfiction? By Lee Gutkind & Making Scenes In Memoir by Lee Martin In this blog post, I was assigned to read three texts and to analyze and set a scene where I combine quotes from authors that discuss their writing processes. Here are the links to each texts:
In this blog post, I provide answers to The Proust Questionnaire. A generalized questionnaire curated by Marcel Proust that is known to show the true characteristics of an individual when all questions are honestly answered. Here are the truth teas I'll spill by answering the questions myself:
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AuthorHi! I'm Taylor Kriebel, a current student at Delaware County Community College. You're currently reading my blog assignments from my English Composition I class. Enjoy! Archives
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