hhhhhm, enlarging the truth sounds a bit familiar doesn't it? ohhh yeah! it's called lying. Well actually I going to say the unbelievable about lying . . .  For writing it's good to enlarge the truth!  Yes it really is, as long as it's a fiction story you are writing.  And remember it isn't good to actually lie. BUT for a fiction novel it's the heart of the making of it.  Fiction is one big lie, so without it's first ingredient well, it doesn't really exist.  So maybe you can fit something that you experienced and enlarge it, there you go!  You've got yourself a lie, and that could actually be profitable because if you make the lie not to unrealistic then it can really enhance your writing.  To be a good fiction author you have to lie, after all if your setting is in another world nobody would believe you if you said it was true
11/21/2012 06:13:46 am

Actually, fiction, as you should know, doesn't always occur in another world. For example, the movie "Avengers" (by the way, I am writing this comment - not knowing if you will read it or not - on November 21, 2012) takes place right here on earth. Obviously that is not a book, but there are also many books that are "fiction on earth".

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Robert Thacker
11/21/2012 10:43:06 pm

Yup, I know that. It's just that most of the time I write in other worlds, I've sort of got into a habit of saying another world. But considering this the first post... I'm not sure how I could have gotten into that habit so quickly!

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