Not being a fan of creative nonfiction, I have to disagree with you, King, about not letting the facts get in the way of a good story. There is certainly room for fiction in the sporting world. Think Corey Ford's "The Road to Tinkhamtown", or for humor, his "Lower Forty" stories. But if I'm writing about something I did, or something some famous hunter did, I'm sticking to the facts. Otherwise, we start sliding famous hunters into the Paul Bunyan category--or maybe Davey Crockett/Daniel Boone, where it gets too hard to separate facts from legend. Let their deeds--which are likely impressive enough--stand on their own merits. Otherwise, someone who knows the facts is likely to pop up and say "I was there, and that's all a crock." We've seen that, to a certain extent, with Capstick in the above posts. If he was embellishing his own life, while that does not diminish him as a writer in my eyes, it does diminish him as a person.
