Biofiction – biography as fiction – tells other people’s stories in fascinating, highly readable ways. Biofiction captures those wonderful tales your grandparents told. Biofiction brings to life family anecdotes, neighborhood legends, even multi-generation sagas.
As a writer, biofiction gives you a wonderful platform for relating true stories that inspire, that motivate, that stir your readers to action. And it’s so easy. Your protagonist is already characterized, your plot is laid out before you, and much of your research is already completed or readily available at the prompting of a few probing questions.
What remains for you, then, is to turn narrative into dialogue, to show what your real-life characters tell, to capture the genuine emotion with which stories are told.
If you’ve not tried writing biofiction, I encourage you to do so. Not only is the process of creating your novel easier, in doing so you contribute character and richness to the fabric of your society.
