Writing is service.
That is to say, a writer's duty is to bend herself toward building human wellness on every level: individual, interpersonal, local, societal, and global. This is the potential that lies within creative nonfiction: to draw from the wellsprings of the personal in order to illuminate the inner workings of the systemic. And the primary tool of nonfiction: truth.
Before we can come to understand truth, we must be able to recognize its three servants.
