Can you handle the truth?

And even if you could handle the truth (anyone else picturing Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men right now?), the truth can be hard to find.

Take these two texts about the first wheels for example.

One says the first wheels were made of hard clay and the other says they were made entire of wood. These books were published in 2015 and 2019 respectively. So who do you believe?

This is what makes writing nonfiction so hard. Even if you think you’ve gotten to primary sources for the answer, those sources may still disagree. The authors of each of these books likely found very different research articles, both of which seemed to be authorities.

Makes me want to give up and write speculative fiction set in made-up worlds.