Catherine Ryan Hyde

More on Authentic Fiction –  books I recommend. In my last post I offered an explanation of authenticity and how it correlates to writing fiction. If you missed it, you can read it HERE. Others don’t necessarily agree with me.  Some claim that fiction shouldn’t be authentic—that fiction shouldn’t lean into reality other than having plausibility. Or, that in fiction the limit of authenticity is that is it rings true to the human condition. But my point of view leans a different way. I’m more about the authenticity of the writer—whether she (or he) is writing from her heart, her…