It's always going to be risky, trying to make lasting fiction from very recent history.
Johnson does his considerable best when he's making fiction on the Hollywood high-concept model.
"Reading and playing: what makes interactive fiction unique" p. 276-298.
Mark Twain loved to make fiction of his mishaps, and to show himself always in a bad light.
Yet you don't want to be writing about fiction, but making fiction.
Inform7, is a natural programming language for making interactive fiction.
Does an author need that pain to make compelling fiction about pain?
Sources to use so good history can make good fiction
By itself, this material does not make good fiction.
At a certain moment, we wanted to make fiction, to do things you couldn't do in documentaries.