Creative Non-Fiction by Allison Symes
Image Credit: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay photos. The Hayes, Swanwick - photo taken by me, Allison Symes I was at the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School in August, my annual residential writing week at The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire. As well as learning a great deal, I catch up with friends I only see in person here. We stay in contact via social media otherwise. A lovely time is had by all. The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire I deliberately go to courses that are “left field” to my flash fiction and blogging. I learn more than I think I will from these and did so again here. I went to the four part specialist course of Creative Non-Fiction by Simon Whaley. I found it enlightening as some of my blogs hover on this category of writing. (If you can go to his course, I highly recommend it. You will learn so much about observation and conveying the truth). Creative non-fiction is factual work told using fictional techniques. Facts cannot be changed but i...