Is Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl fiction or nonfiction? Is Fires on the Plain nonfiction? Is the story Bless Me, Ultima realistic? Is the novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry fiction or non-fiction? Are the "I Survived" books historical fiction?
Are the "I Survived" books historical fiction? Is The Gambler based on a true story? Is crime fiction the new literary fiction? Is the book The Help fiction or nonfiction? Is the Aeneid based on a true story? How is The Story of an Hour realistic fiction?
Through the 1990s I published a lot of short fiction in a wide spectrum of venues but never managed to get enough to appear in close cluster that might draw publishers’ attention. One of my novels was accepted by Baen Books but I yanked it when I learned, via a sub-editor, that Jim...
In what respect is the radical separation of childhood from adulthood functional and healthy, as opposed to the alternative, and surely more realistic, view that children’s capacities and understanding develop gradually over time, in relation to sex as much as they do with everything else? While...
I have long been a fan of ‘polyphonic’ non-fiction; works that collect word of mouth stories from people who have lived through or experienced something. Svetlana Alexievitch is, of course, the most famous of those polyphonic writers, with good reason. She has a way of capturing the per...
In this interactive fiction game, your job is to make... virtual realities, of a sort, which would be hard enough if you also weren't trying to make one that felt undeniably real in ways the user can't deny. To say Dual Transform is a bit more different and difficult than your ...
one cannot really enforce any laws about love and I know that although this book was fiction, it certainly is a window into many lives that struggled through that time in South Africa. The statute books called sexual intercourse between people of different skin color, The Immorality Act, which...
Note. I am writing 40 one hundred word short stories using the minor characters of Nabakov’s Despair. I have 3 days till submission is due. This was warm up for them. 13 Comments Filed underliterature,short stories Fictionflash fiction,Friday Fictioneersshort fiction,short story,writing,writing...
Sure, the real Edgar Allen Poe died under suspicious circumstances, but we won't get all speculative and take the game for more than a piece of fiction, will we? With the help of a supernatural pocket watch you can travel into Poe's stories and explore them for objects that have been,...
Also if you don’t feel that you are not that good at some specific work it is important to say No I Can’t! . There is no shame in accepting your limitations ,it is a way of being realistic. Everyone has some limits. A plumber can’t become a doctor and vice versa. If the pl...