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Getting to the Truth: The Wonderfully Impossible Task of the Creative Nonfiction Writer

Taylor is teaching an upcoming workshop at Catapult this June on exploring the boundaries of nonfiction. * Imagine the following writing exercise: Write something completely true. Sounds pretty simple, right? Except here’s the tricky part: if you write something false, something that isn’t true—even a single word—all your loved ones will be executed immediately. Considering those rather […]

Taylor is teaching an upcoming workshop at Catapult this June on exploring the boundaries of nonfiction.

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Imagine the following writing exercise: Write something completely true. Sounds pretty simple, right? Except here’s the tricky part: if you write something false, something that isn’t true—even a single word—all your loved ones will be executed immediately. Considering those rather absurd terms, what would you write? What could you write? Would you dare to write anything at all?