No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.