For anyone else reading these comments, I am including this note from Part Three of my book to clarify my writing approach about events which I did not witness first hand:
I was not on my father’s evacuation and never heard a cohesive tale of events. However, I’ve read widely, visited the locations in Vietnam, and conducted numerous interviews. I have the collection of notes and letters he wrote during that time. Also helpful was the book written by his co-worker and station assistant Charles Eugene Taber, "Get Out Any Way You Can." With all these resources, I have—in what I hope is the best storytelling fashion—written a creative nonfiction narrative of the evacuation.
Kat, Because you have heavily novelized your own story by choice, it is difficult to know how to read entries on your site, i.e., to determine whether what is being conveyed is fiction, fact or a blend of the two. It would be helpful to readers to clarify such things in each case. I wish that you had stuck to fact in your own story because you write so compellingly.
Thanks for commenting, Frank. I definitely want to be clear. In the future, I can include a longer, more clarified introduction about the guest authors and the genres they are writing in.
For anyone else reading these comments, I am including this note from Part Three of my book to clarify my writing approach about events which I did not witness first hand:
I was not on my father’s evacuation and never heard a cohesive tale of events. However, I’ve read widely, visited the locations in Vietnam, and conducted numerous interviews. I have the collection of notes and letters he wrote during that time. Also helpful was the book written by his co-worker and station assistant Charles Eugene Taber, "Get Out Any Way You Can." With all these resources, I have—in what I hope is the best storytelling fashion—written a creative nonfiction narrative of the evacuation.
Kat, Because you have heavily novelized your own story by choice, it is difficult to know how to read entries on your site, i.e., to determine whether what is being conveyed is fiction, fact or a blend of the two. It would be helpful to readers to clarify such things in each case. I wish that you had stuck to fact in your own story because you write so compellingly.
Thanks for commenting, Frank. I definitely want to be clear. In the future, I can include a longer, more clarified introduction about the guest authors and the genres they are writing in.