Don't make it up

I believe that a book has to be one hundred percent true to be a memoir. If you say that only part of the book is untrue then how are we supposed to believe the other part of the book? We can't trust that the entire story or plot is real in the first place. No I don't think half-truths are okay either because who would want to read a story that is supposed to be true and find out that it's not? There is a big difference between knowing someone who died in a car crash and actually killing someone in a car crash.  You should write a book because you love to write and want to share your story, not to get attention or pity. Even if you don't want attention and you just want to write a good story then you should write a fantasy novel or something other than a book that is supposed to be true. Yes, I think that we do need to label things fiction and non-fiction because then you show the reader what they are reading before they even start. If you lie in a book and publish it then you should expect that people are going to be mad and want their money back; because you said that everything in that book happened even though it didn't. Readers don't appreciate being lied to or fooled. They bought your book because they wanted to read a memoir, not something made up in your head. You also shouldn't write a book about helping another part of the world and then ask people to donate money then keep it all to yourself. If you want to dance around the truth then you should write a different book.