Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville Department of English, Literature, and Modern Creative Writing Minor Portfolios Languages 4-22-2017 Casual Myths David Grandouiller
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[email protected]. CASUAL MYTHS by David Grandouiller A Collection of Creative Writing Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of English, Literature, and Modern Languages at Cedarville University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Creative Writing Minor Cedarville, Ohio 2017 Approved by ________________________ Introduction Something I’ve learned about writing over the last few years is that miniatures are often the most effective way to discuss something too big to wrap my mind around. In a similar way, discussing creative nonfiction may an effective way of discussing all my work as a student- writer, partly because I’ve done most of my best work in creative nonfiction, and because nonfiction informs the way I write in other genres. I discovered creative nonfiction my sophomore year of college, in a creative writing intro course, and it felt fresh, energizing: “like finding the magical breeding ground of all literature,” I wrote in my notes, before deciding that was more than the truth.