We're moving, we're plugged in. Still, we want to hear the human voice. We long for narrative, and that's where creative nonfiction is going, into story. Yet, the lines blur, one genre moves over into the other, and I worry. And what of Welty's line that I love to quote.
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.
Creative nonfiction employs the same literary techniques that fiction does, character, plot, theme, setting, mood. All of life is creation, is story. I suppose what I'm worried about is truth. It's wonderful to seek truth, but when we think we've found it in a new genre, I worry. Truth lives in questions, rarely in answers.