Blog #5

I believe that for a book to be considerd non-fiction, it should be just that. Non-fiction. The only time where I see it to be okay is in cases like The Glass Castle, where she was a child and she may not recall exactly what she said but she gets the idea of what she said. I'm talking about dialogue. I think she has the basic idea of what she and other people said back then, and who knows, maybe it is exact. But there's almost never really a time when people recall exactly what they said to one another.

The half-truths matter when it comes to what type of story you tell people you're gonna sell. If you say it's fiction then it doesn't matter at all, but if you're gonna sit there and tell everyone that it's a memoir when in actuality a lot of it is made up, then turn around, admit it's only five percent true, then that gives reasonable doubt if any of it is true. So moral of the story. Either it's fiction, or non-fiction. When it comes to events and really important things that are said or done, those have to be exact for it to be considered a memoir or non-fiction.