![]() ![]() While we begin with a fairly straightforward narrative, we end with one that’s diminished or fractured. In brief, then, the river flows from a relatively exterior focus to an intensely interior one, from a focus on actions and events to one on ideas and emotions. From here, we flow on to immersion essays (or other forms of New Journalism) in which the author immerses him- or herself in an experience, before traveling on to memoir, to personal essay (including nature and travel writing), to the meditative essay, finally spilling into the lyric essay. At the head of the river lie the categories of biography and autobiography. ![]() And even though it traverses waterscapes as diverse as the Mississippi, the Amazon, and the Nile, there are seven basic forms-or ports of call, if you will-which we might explore. The genre of creative nonfiction is a long river with many moods and currents. ![]()
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