Try This

Memory goes, writing stays.

-Oriental proverb-

I believe there is an awful lot out there to support the writers of fiction, but not very much for the writers of non-fiction. Yet, non-fiction is that form where the old adage 'write what you know' becomes fully applicable. When I was much younger, I thought I would become a journalist. Not one of the investigative journos who write for TIME or Vanity Fair, but a reporter, the most basic and most dangerous type of journalist who finds herself in the writing trenches and often at war (at least in my deluded fantasies). As I grew up, other genres won my attention, especially narrative non-fiction, which blends seamlessly 'writing what you know' with narrating it, and essays, where one can pass educated opinions as facts. Today I would like to encourage you to try non-fiction. 

Go and read Roald Dahl's The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me and report about the incident of the bathtub flying out of the window and crashing onto the road below. 

Comments

[Amelia]

my favourite kind of reads are non-fiction, in fact I find it really, really hard to pick up fiction, although I like good fiction and I like writing. But I find my life seems to revolve around factual things . . . . .

Amelia.x