Eight to Write

This past year I've become part of a writing interest group. We meet regularly and have a theme of some sort for each meeting. This month's theme was "art, anger, and aging" and the idea was to try to combine all three into a piece of writing. Yesterday we met and the whole group of eight were present to share. I had done a very short factual report using internet sources. Five of the group had written short fiction. One person read a reflective travel piece she had written and another a reflection on aging. I was amazed at the last piece of writing: it was not only written by the oldest member of the group, but it was beautifully put together - a great example of a type of personal essay writing that fits the description of "creative non-fiction." I admire this type of writing and have found several sites such as Bruce Dobler's that give excellent information.