Which statement about nonfiction writing is accurate?

A. Nonfiction writers base their characters on real people.

B. Nonfiction writers never use any type of figurative language.

C. Nonfiction writers have to stick to things that actually happened.

D. Nonfiction writers have to follow a clear plot.

C). Nonfiction writers have to stick to things that actually happened.

Explanation:

Non-fiction writing is demonstrated as the genre that tends to propose credible and trustworthy information which the author claims to be true to the best of knowledge. Such genre involves accounts of facts or descriptions of real events or people or objects as the author promises the readers to propose the factually accurate descriptions. Therefore, the statement that is most accurate about non-fiction writing would be that their writers need to stick to the facts and real events (that actually happened) in order to offer credible information to the audience which is the chief aim of a non-fiction writing. Thus, option C is the correct answer.