What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.