I don’t buy claims that paintings are more accurate than photographs, and novels more truthful than factual writing.
Writing tagged: ‘factual writing’
Book review: ‘Orwell’s Roses‘ by Rebecca Solnit
Pleasure, truth, and roses.
The slippery slope of minor embellishments
Artistic licence in factual writing doesn’t include making stuff up.
The gaping void between fact and fiction
Fact and fiction are discrete things, not parts of a continuum.
Limitations of the blog format
For some time now, I’ve been growing increasingly conscious of the limitations of the blog format in catering for the provisional nature of factual writing.