blog #5

When it comes to ethics and CNF I believe it's important to respect the privacy and reflect on people and situations in a respectable way. As soon as you discuss someone or something in a way that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, I feel you crossed the line. It's important to be able to tell what happened in a situation because it is nonfiction writing, but respect is important. For me, I am writing about my volunteer group. I am not going to say personal things about the people I work with or there first names. Things like where they work, live, and what disabilities they have will remain unknown to the readers. I will be telling a true story, but I will be respecting those I speak about. When describing a true story, emotions and factual truth are bound to get intertwined. As a writer though, it's important to help separate the two. Explain to your audience that your emotions may be a limitation within your writing. For example, if a bad experience happens during the hot summer and you say you felt cold and numb, explain to your readers why your emotions were opposite of the facts. I believe in CNF truth always matters. It's nonfiction writing. Of course there will be exaggeration and emotions involved but that's because we are only human and we want to make our stories interesting to others. Just don't let creativity get in the way of the truth. Nonfiction actually happened and it's important we don't want to lie to our audience.