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Q&A Is my work fiction or non-fiction?

While it sounds like what you're writing is not Creative Nonfiction, this essay about it may help clarify your self-description: https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonf...

posted 6y ago by April Salutes Monica C.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2020-02-10T14:22:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42339
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T10:54:05Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42339
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T10:54:05Z (about 5 years ago)
While it sounds like what you're writing is _not_ Creative Nonfiction, this essay about it may help clarify your self-description:[https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonfiction](https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonfiction)

> "Creative” doesn’t mean inventing what didn’t happen, reporting and describing what wasn’t there. It doesn’t mean that the writer has a license to lie. The cardinal rule is clear—and cannot be violated. This is the pledge the writer makes to the reader—the maxim we live by, the anchor of creative nonfiction: “You can’t make this stuff up!”

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-02-19T17:25:00Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 1