ABSTRACT
Novelists and other dramatists have long extolled the practice of nonfiction writing, specifically journalism, as a way of gain-ing worldly experience, learning information-gathering techniques, and tightening one’s prose style. Describing this idealized career path, journalist-turned-novelist Tom Wolfe writes in The New Journalism :
Just as the practice of nonfiction writing improves one’s ability to craft fiction, so, too, it can be argued, does the reverse hold true: The practice of fictive storytelling leads to a more cogent nonfiction writing style.
