Post #5

For a book to be non-fiction in my mind, it has to be mostly true.  It's okay if some of the non-important information isn't true like, for example, if you couldn't remember what you had for breakfast that day or something like what words you got in a spelling bee. If the book is considered a memoir, then the major events should be true.  Like if you write in your book that you got arrested for killing people in a car accident but in real life you weren't the cause of the people dying but you were involved in it and only had to go to jail for a few hours then that's not okay.  Half-truths are okay only if its not a memoir. In my opinion, genres shouldn't affect the way you write so it can be placed in a genre.  Books should be written whether or not there is a genre for it. Even if you can't tell what the genre is, most of the time it fits into a genre.

This chart has genres and sub-genres that most books fit into. Every book fits into a genre even if its not directly stated or if its not obvious.