After a while, the horizon flickers and sends up a filmy light. The air itself is viscous, moved by wind, distorting the landscape. I tried to take that three-dimensional, bizarre feeling of getting a headache and put it down on lifeless paper so that someone else could experience it. Above all, Hanson considers herself a fiction writer. I really believe that if you can write good fiction, you can write good creative nonfiction.
Good writing is good writing.
Each genre, however, comes with its own set of demands and challenges. She read everything she could get her hands on about migraines. Afterwards though, she was faced with whittling down reams and reams of notes. During revision, the first several drafts were unwieldy. I had this huge temptation to put in everything.