"Family through the eyes of time": A creative nonfiction memoir
Abstract
I wrote my three-piece creative nonfiction memoir with the idea to capture the ways in which a family can change through divorce, time, and grief. I wrote 24 pages, based on the average MFA requirements, but it will be the beginning of a full length creative nonfiction memoir. Each of these pieces started as a draft made for a creative nonfiction class, where it went through a workshop and then through a round of revisions. For my thesis, I took each of these pieces and revised them twice before getting feedback from my thesis director. After that, I took my thesis director's advice to make a final draft. I wanted to write this piece because families and people are always changing, but it is rare to think about how these changes affect individual people. It was important to me to capture these changes, especially the changes that come about because of divorce and the loss of a loved one, because these are characteristics that define my life in ways that my family couldn't have realized at the time. This will be the focus I take with me in my future writing endeavors.