NONFICTION|WRITING|CREATIVE WRITING

Being Creative Versus Being “Creative”

Why nonfiction writers should adopt the former and avoid the latter

Make sure you stay true to your story, otherwise it will be someone else having the last laugh Photo by Laura Louise Grimsley on Unsplash

Dear reader, I’d like you to cast your mind back to 2005. It was the year when Oprah (no need for a surname, of course) raved on her show about a memoir that had gripped her from beginning to end. A…