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- Yes. Both Alex and Marcus wrote a book about the experience with the same title as the documentary and detailed how Marcus — who had buried their traumatic childhood — hid dark family secrets from Alex to protect him.
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Oct 30, 2023 · It's no coincidence that many of this summer's hit novels were directly inspired by real histories, from Patrick Nathan's dive into McCarthy-era queer Hollywood in The Future Was Color to Lev Grossman's reimagining of King Arthur's court in The Bright Sword. As book lovers, we find this trend reassuring.
4 Steps to Write a Book Based on a True Story. In all stories based on true events, you’ll need to make specific choices about the characters, their motivations, and the events. And in stories that directly or tangentially involve you as a potential character, then an initial, difficult choice has to be made.
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- Titanic. Released: 1997. Rated: PG-13. Memorable quote: “A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.” Twenty-five years after its release, our hearts still go on for James Cameron’s Academy Award–winning romantic drama.
- 12 Years a Slave. Released: 2013. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “I don’t want to survive. I want to live.” It is nearly impossible for a movie based on a true story to avoid taking any creative license, but 12 Years a Slave comes very close.
- Argo. Released: 2012. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “This is what I do. I get people out. And I’ve never left anyone behind.” Despite being a gripping spy thriller based on the very real extrication of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980 by CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck, who also directed the movie), this film took a lot of creative license.
- Hidden Figures. Released: 2016. Rated: PG. Memorable quote: “On any given day, I analyze the velometer levels for air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over 10,000 calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry by hand.”
Apr 24, 2020 · Wait, is this a true story? Yes. Both Alex and Marcus wrote a book about the experience with the same title as the documentary and detailed how Marcus — who had buried their traumatic childhood — hid dark family secrets from Alex to protect him.
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- Imagination and Creativity
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- Truth Is Subjective
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Simply stated, “Based on a True Story,” allowed me the freedom to rewrite history, to reach beyond the actual events and people I know. When I fictionalized what I perceived as true, I became so absorbed in the characters that the characters had room to take over, and moved the story forward without the interference of any futile attempts on my par...
My imagination expanded to create new characters and events, taken from people I’ve met and my interactions with them, while maintaining the essence of the true story and my strong emotional attachments. For example, in the book, Sylvia (loosely based on me) interviews several possible caregivers to live with Steve (my brother’s character) and I wa...
Publishers will tell you that when telling a story based on true events, writing it as a memoir sells better than fiction. Perhaps because memoirs appear to be more authentic than novels. And authenticity has grown in the industry. So I stumbled when asked to determine the genre of Just in Time. Memoir was encouraged by my publisher, yet memoir is ...
Truth really is all perception. As Harry Chapin, 1970’s singer-songwriter, best known for “Cat’s in the Cradle,” wisely said, “There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth.” Somerset Maugham, one of my favorite classic writers, said in an interview when asked if what he wrote was true, he answered with a chuckle, “I often can’t ...
Joan Jackson shares how she wrote a novel based on a true story of caring for her schizophrenic brother, and why she chose fiction over memoir. She explains the benefits of author freedom, imagination, creativity, and POV in creative nonfiction.
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Aug 9, 2021 · Using your life as a source for a fictional novel is a great way to turn your own stories into something new and resonant. Retelling and adapting true stories is a time-tested method that many great fiction writers use to produce iconic fictional stories.
Feb 21, 2024 · Do you want to write a true story but need help finding compelling true story concepts to tell? Sometimes reading simple story prompts is the easiest way to get those creative juices flowing. We've put together 101 story prompts that can help inspire your next screenplay based on real-life events.
