This form of writing keeps surging back because it goes deep into a journalist's being as a teller of stories and may provide a direction for the survival of newspapers. Journalism, especially magazine journalism, continues to debate the use of fiction-writing techniques in reporting the news.
Debate still rages over the notion of accuracy.
It's easy to associate the word creative with imaginative, Cheney claims, and many get the wrong idea that creative nonfiction is imaginative or made up. Accuracy is a byword, Cheney says. Advocates of creative nonfiction, however, don't want boring writing and argue that skilled writers take facts and situations that appear boring and turn them into interesting and exciting stories. Once past that misconception, creative nonfiction begins to show its powerful ideas. Immersion provides the second principle, and immersion leads to details, which are keys to stirring a reader's emotions.