How Much Can We Write About Our Families (as non-fiction writers)?
Should we tell all truths in personal essays or creative nonfiction?
As a creative writing teacher, students sometimes ask about how to write a personal essay without bashing or trashing the real-life characters (family, friends, employers, ex partners) therein.
Writing Creative Nonfiction: 5 Things It's Taught Me About All Writing
Once, at one of those literary receptions, a male writer friend introduced me to a woman I didn't know.
“This is Aine,” he said. “She’s “bitextual."