Reflection #7

When I comes to people lying about events in non- fiction books I am fine with it but don't call the work a true story memoir. If you claim it's factual and it's not that is dishonest to the reader. When you pick up a book in the non-fiction section you are expecting a real story of someone's expirences. If the info is made up then it seems pointless to even read so called true story's if they really aren't true. If you are reading a book to learn about someone's real expirences and its not factual information they your are just reading a fiction not a true event story. On the other hand I'm fine with small exaggerations in certain places in the story, such as conversations, and when and where events took place. This may make a lot more interesting story but my problem is when you claim a true story but you have made up whole events and characters. If you as an author are going to lie about your story then I think you should just make your story fiction this way your readers wouldn't be lied to. Also if you know there are flat out lies in your book you can put a small warning such as "some events aren't true" this would help readers understand not to take you story as complete fact.