Constraints …

… Rod Dreher — Mike Daisey, David Sedaris, & Truth. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I’m writing a non-fiction book about my sister Ruthie. Almost every time I sit down to work on the narrative, and start sifting through interview notes and my own memories, I run across an occasion in which I wish Ruthie had said this or done that, because it would have made a better story. But, well, she didn’t, and I don’t have license to make this stuff up, even if it better illustrates a truth of her life or her character.