Bill Scott's Blog - Posts Tagged "creative-non-fiction"

I have never been a fan of dry historic facts so, when I wrote 'The Buttercup', I was determined to write it as a story that brought out the spirit of the company and its employees, as well as the compassion and generosity of Andrew Ewing – the man I so fondly remembered from my childhood. The book is, of course, factually accurate, but I also wrote it 'from the heart' and in a style similar to that used by a writer of fiction.

I knew I was writing something a little different but I had no idea that it had a name, until I recently came across the term 'creative non –fiction' - where the goal is to make nonfiction stories read like fiction, "so that your readers are as enthralled by fact as they are by fantasy". That was certainly my aim but it is up to readers to decide whether I succeeded.