Nathan B. Wehr
An assortment of my written and edited work.
The Final Truth
Original Prose
“The Final Truth” is one half of my submission for my English Seminar. Initially written as a speculative adventure piece with a shocking twist, it underwent two redrafts before becoming the version featured here. This piece is the epitome of what my writing strives to be: a fantastical engagement of the mind with its borders and a space for outcasts to celebrate their otherness.
Critical Apparatus
Nonfiction and Commentary
The second half of my submission for English Seminar, this critical apparatus is a raw and precise dissection of “The Final Truth” and myself as its writer. This explores how I stepped into writing, my influences, and choices in writing “The Final Truth.” It speaks for itself, but my advisor also provided the following feedback for it:
“Nathan, I am afraid that you might have a career as a memoirist. Or at minimum, a creative non-fictionist. Even at this stage of your development as a writer, it is astoundingly clear that your authorial voice rings the truest, most genuine, most bracing, and most blisteringly acidic (which is a good thing, truly) when it is trained on your life and experiences. To whichever extent you continue to expand your writing talents, I hope that creative nonfiction will be a predominant component of it. I admit that the “creative non” genre requires a degree of radical openness, which comes with the risks of vulnerability. With that said, I will double-down on my assertion that your voice makes for valid, compelling reading, particularly when it is unleashed on observations of the world around you.”
Dr. Kekoa Kaluhiokalani
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