That's entirely fair. Manipulation is kind of what a writer does yet the word manipulative has perjoritive connotations. Many types of writing don't have litera

That's entirely fair. Manipulation is kind of what a writer does yet the word manipulative has perjoritive connotations. Many types of writing don't have literal truth as any kind of pre-requisite. Others make a pretence of literal truth to achieve greater effect then basically lie, many autobiographies fall into this trap to some degree. All these things. Differential empathy. Data quality matters.