“In creative nonfiction, the place or location where the event or experience took place is more than just about the name of the place. In his essay, “How to Write Creative Nonfiction: Writing about Place” Dave Hood reminds us to expand beyond physical location by including elements like culture, language, values, and customs: Like Virginia Woolf in London, Balzac in Paris, and Joyce in Ireland, you can write about place, too! Define Place Everyone has unique experiences and takeaways that can be gleaned from their work.Ĭreative nonfiction presents some great opportunities to write meaningfully about the places you’ve lived in and traveled to as well as place your unique stamp on a locale, even if it is well-known. ![]() ![]() Consider that debunked: as we previously discussed, you don’t have to be a world traveler to write about your life. ![]() But that’s not the only genre of creative nonfiction in which you can write about place! A common misconception about writing about place in creative nonfiction is that you have to write about particularly exotic spaces. You may have seen the title of this post and thought I was going to talk about travel writing.
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