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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5088601" data-attributes="member: 54707">Yeah, kinda. I know about Creative Nonfiction. I've done it for a long time.And I know all about the sub-categories of nonfiction.But what I was really shooting at is, can you think of a good general term (that might stick) for nonfiction that would be the equivalent term to Fiction but which does not use a negative prefix (or negative implication) to describe all Nonfiction. Something like Faction (though it would have to be a variant definition to what people commonly think of as faction).For instance rather than defining nonfiction by what it isn't, you'd define it by what it is. As an example:Fiction: that class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form. something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story: an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument, explanation, or entertainment.Faction: that class of literature comprising works of a factual nature or believed to be of a factual nature, esp. in prose form. something factual, verifiable, known to be real. based upon historical truth. presented in structured forms with the purpose of exploring, explaining, or debating reality.I kinda like the term faction, but then again I also suspect a better term could be designed, invented, or redefined, to accommodate this problem.It bothers me though that nonfiction is defined (terminologically speaking) by what it isn't, rather than what it actually is.Anyone know of or ever invented a better term than nonfiction or faction to describe what nonfiction is?</blockquote>

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