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I don’t know if that’s something a writer can intentionally do during the drafting process, but it might be something to think about in revision. Especially if you look at your first page and think, am I just telling you something, or am I really in it here? Am I really expressing something in the moment? And then you can always go back if you need to give more information or summary, but you’ve gotta let us be with you for a minute before we get to whatever it is you’re trying to tell us.
I think that often, even though I think the scholarly world around creative nonfiction has come an incredibly long way in the last 30 years or so, I do think a lot of creative nonfiction writers don’t really get the practice they need in scene work, right? In writing the scene, in writing dialogue, those in media res moments, where you drop the reader in.
