I arrived at camp this morning - before it was even light out. It was also before anyone else had come along. Being the first to arrive, I located the cot in my assigned tent that would get me high enough above the ground and crawling critters and yet low enough from the top canvas to keep any dropping spiders from hitting me in the face at night. Nope, they could land on my up-bunk neighbor! My next goal was to learn the campsite area and begin putting into play all the wonderful tricks I had been planning since my camping trip last summer.

Most writings are written in one of four different formats or categories. These formats include fiction, non-fiction, biography and autobiography. Factual events can be included in a piece of fiction, for example, the writer can write a story that took place during the Civil War and include actual battles and place, but the characters and the storyline themselves will not be based on actual persons or events. A work of non-fiction is a piece of work that is based on facts surrounding actual things, events, dates, places and/or people. However, non-fiction books also include educational... Show more

Most writings are written in one of four different formats or categories. These formats include fiction, non-fiction, biography and autobiography.

Factual events can be included in a piece of fiction, for example, the writer can write a story that took place during the Civil War and include actual battles and place, but the characters and the storyline themselves will not be based on actual persons or events.

A work of non-fiction is a piece of work that is based on facts surrounding actual things, events, dates, places and/or people. However, non-fiction books also include educational books such as recipe books, music books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, how-to books and the like. An example of a non-fiction piece of work would be something like, “The Mormon Movement.”

A biography is a piece of work that tells about the factual history of a person who existed or who is currently alive. The facts being disclosed in a biography need to be researched and verified to call the piece of work a biography.

If the facts cannot be verified and turn out to be false or made up, the piece of work then falls into the category of “fiction.”

An autobiography is when a person writes about the facts and history surrounding their own life. It is not written by a third person. In short, the author is writing facts and truth about themselves. A diary and/or a journal are considered autobiographies.

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