“TRUST, BUT VERIFY.” Reading those words, I simply smiled from earring to earring. Such good advice. Such good advice for writers of memoir, whose inclination is to think that what they feel is true, and therefore needs no checking. How sure are you that your facts are correct? How sure can you be, and what lengths do you need to go to prove your truth?
I recently found a fabulous piece of creative inspiration on this topic. Here is it for you to read. Posted on the Poynter Institute website, the piece raises complex and compelling questions about the truth. All of these questions will benefit your work. Enjoy.
Want some more guidelines about how to check your facts? I’ve got some suggestions in a previous post printed here.
