Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.
I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.