Best Sellers post #8: Truth in a Memoir

Fiction vs. Non-Fiction

            I do think that they are two very different genres. However, when deciding if a book is non-fiction or not that all depends on what they lied about. It does not matter how much, it just matters what they lied about. If they changed the color of a girls shirt in the book, that is still a lie. But it is not an important lie. If they changed the fact that they murdered someone but actually did not, then that is taking the step from non-fiction over to fiction. It is okay to exaggerate some things, but if you change the whole story of something that happened, then that makes the story realistic fiction.