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Tools for creative nonfiction

• Use the 5 senses: taste, touch, smell, sound, sight
• Use similies
• Use metaphors
• Use transitions
• Include dialogue
• Experiment with point of view: you can use first person, second person, third person
• Use flashbacks
• Use foreshadowing
• Use repetition of certain words or lines to create an effect
• Incorporate themes and explore those themes within your essay
• If you feel uncomfortable using people’s real names, you can change them
• Paint a picture for the reader: use a lot of setting, colors, describe where we are in terms of location (an office, house, school, etc.)
• Make sure you have a point: in other words, why are you writing this essay and why should we care?
• Use different tenses, but be consistent. Present or past is the norm.
• Build up suspense, don't give away the point of the story all at once.