When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.
Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.