The Curiously Recursive Problem of the Meta-Fictional Genre

His creative potential was never realized for the simple fact that he never could decide between doing documentaries about fictional work or fictionalized versions of documentaries. All he could be sure of is that he wanted to prove a point about how arbitrary was the line between fiction and nonfiction and as a consequence was never able to actually move from the concept - his fictional notions of the project - into the reality - the actual product that could share his ideas about reality with an audience. He'd encountered a curiously meta-fictional problem of being unable to document his fiction. The good news is that he'd pioneered a meta-fictional genre. The bad news is that this genre - by its very nature - could never become a reality he could share with anyone else. It was itself - like its imagined products - meta-fictional.