The truth about nonfiction
I n high school I was not a fan of English class. It seemed that we spent an eternity talking about Shakespeare and a bunch of books that I really wasn’t interested in that we talked way too much about. When I went to college I was happy to write research papers and the deeper I got the more I fell in love with research and writing. While my goal as a kid was to write teleplays and screenplays my teens brought the dream of writing a novel. I had started a novel that would be abandoned repeatedly, but life led me to a path of writing nonfiction. School and work brought questions of local folklore and urban legends which I began to research and practice writing papers about. I eventually shared some of my work to help a friend learn how to write research papers and after a while people viewed me as someone who knew about these stories. This led to a ghost group where I immersed myself in over 130 years’ worth of research and created handbooks for my...