The Balance of Truth and Storytelling in Non-Fiction Writing

Truthiness comes from the heart

Rebecca Cullen
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readNov 4, 2021

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When Stephen Colbert coined the term, “truthiness” in a hilarious bit during the George W. years, he talked about how one’s truth doesn’t necessarily come from books or from thinking, it comes from your heart.

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