I am still on the element of writing a memoir. Since this creative nonfiction genre is something new to me, one of the elements of writing the memoir that intrigue me is about telling the truth of what happened as accurate as you remember it. My question is how far do you need to tell the truth to consider it as a real truth when you write your memoir?
The saga controversy over James Frey’s memoir titled “Million Little Pieces” which is categorized as creative nonfiction had sold millions when in the very beginning he tried to sell it as fiction, has prompted me to dig more about this very issue on telling the supposed truth when writing a memoir. After reading several opinions on this controversy, I can list several reasons why writers sometime ‘cut corners’ when writing their memoir.
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