In both fiction and nonfiction, I go back to my journals and skim, looking for entries that tap into the same subject matter. I read and I think. Often, I'll read other writers. If I need to, I'll do research. Give some of your reflections about creative nonfiction as an emerging genre in American literature.
Creative nonfiction seems to be filling a universal craving for what is theoretically true.
The genre is not new. It used to live inside of novels when the author's hand was visible. Today, we judge fiction by the invisibility of an author's hand. Yet, something inside of us craves a reality closer to home. We want our writers to show us how to meet experience head on.