You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
I read almost exclusively nonfiction when I read, because even though it's harder to find a great true story, when you find one, the idea that it actually happened is immensely powerful.That's what moves me the most.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.
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.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.