You’re the Fiction Writing Nonfiction

Every nonfiction book is a fiction book when the author isn’t real.

You’re not inventing dragons. You’re not making up plot twists. You’re not writing fiction.

But you are. Because nonfiction inevitably becomes fiction when the author is, too.

Every insight, every reflection, every “I’ve learned…” rests on a narrator that doesn’t hold up under silence.

You’re writing about something that happened. And the one writing? Also happened. Also passing.

The book might be true. The writer, less so.

So go ahead, write nonfiction. But the one writing was never more real than the words.

You’re just another beautiful part of the story pretending to be the one telling it.

When the writer dissolves, the writing keeps going.