Blog #5

My take on ethnics is that it is important and key to writing CNF, without it we would be writing fiction. I feel that CNF should always be based on true events and that the writer should always stick to the facts. If and when writing based on memory, the writer should make that clear to the reader so that the reader knows that the writer is giving facts that are to the of their knowledge and true to them base on their memory. I feel that there might be times that a CNF writer will have to ask other people who were present at the time of the particular memory to help them get the facts correct but there will be times, as we read in our text, that you may have a different recollection of the same experience. It doesn't make what you are saying false, if you are basing it on your memory of the event. Between emotional and factual truth, one is the. Truth based on ourselves and the other is based on facts. Emotional truth is based on our memory and feelings at the time. For example the book refers to a writing saying she remember it being cold during a flashback, but records indicate that it was actually a hot day. This writer was in fact referring not to the weather but how she remembered feeling cold because of the emotional state at the moment. We also need to remember that if we do need to make something up that we explain it to our readers, for instance a name change in order to keep someone's privacy.