tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post461115117617541165..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Fact vs Fiction - Karen KaoKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-61687428621028207982018-05-17T14:55:37.313+01:002018-05-17T14:55:37.313+01:00Fascinating post, full of important points and ins...Fascinating post, full of important points and insight into the weird way new writing genres keep being created. I mean, Creative Nonfiction - isn't that just Well-written nonfiction? Or just Good Writing? History and biography increasingly adopt fictional techniques for drawing in the reader, e.g. placing an Inciting Event in Chapter 1 and filling in background afterwards. Nothing wrong with that, as long as it really happened, or happened as closely in that way as the historian can achieve. <br /><br /> It's when supposition glides into 'real facts' (as so often happens with Shakespeare biographies https://authorselectric.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Hathaway) that the reader begins to be cheated. When non-fiction becomes Faction, in other words. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-37676437599949426472018-05-10T18:49:34.676+01:002018-05-10T18:49:34.676+01:00I am trying my hand at CNF so this was a timely po...I am trying my hand at CNF so this was a timely post!Dipika Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17734481154069467025noreply@blogger.com