Post #5

For a book to be considered non-fiction, it has to be mostly true. For me, that means anything less than 90% and you’re a liar and I can’t trust you. I feel that 90% is a good number because if you want to be taken seriously as a writer, then you should be honest. Especially if you are going to write a book about something historical, you shouldn’t be faking those facts because people are going to find out and then your reputation as a writer is going to suffer and then you are going to be poor.

For the matter on half-truths, I think if they are innocent half-truths and no one gets hurt in the process, or there isn’t a moral dilemma, then I think it is okay to tell them. I don’t think it was ok than Frey and Mortenson bent the truth because a lot of people got hurt in the process of their lies such as Oprah and all of the people that donated money to Mortenson’s charity.

We don’t need lines between genres. I don’t have a certain genre that I prefer over another. Having genres means that only certain people will read your books if you’re an author in that category, which means that you are only making so much money. So if we take out the lines of genres, then authors will sell more books to more readers and make more money. If we get rid of the lines of genres, it will also get rid of being stuck to reading certain genres. So when people like me get asked “What kind of books do you like to read?”, or “What’s your favorite genre?”, it’s not such a hard question to answer any more.