The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction

What is fiction? What is nonfiction?

Many people may see and think differently. They may have something in them, some imagination that can't become a truth. In my opinion, that's how fiction are created. From the world of imagination, and a little bit of twisted truth, then we can get a form of something called fiction. Then what is the definition of fiction?

Fiction, literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction genre include the novel, short story, and novella. The word is from the Latin fictiō, “the act of making, fashioning, or molding.”

-Encyclopedia Britannica-

Meanwhile, nonfiction is the opposite of fiction. It comes from something that really happened, or in another word, it comes from the truth. So, what is the definition of nonfiction?

Nonfiction novel, story of actual people and actual events told with the dramatic techniques of a novel. The American writer Truman Capote claimed to have invented this genre with his book In Cold Blood (1965). A true story of the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family, the book was based on six years of exacting research and interviews with neighbours and friends of the victims and the two captured murderers. The story is told from the points of view of different “characters,” and the author attempts not to intrude his own comments or distort fact.

-Encyclopedia Britannica-

So, do you understand the difference between fiction and nonfiction? :)