Thursday Two Questions/Actual Fragments of Conversation Into Fiction

by the |G| TM

Welcome to Thursday Two Questions.

In Monday's post, I wrote about a homework assignment I had in a creative writing class at UCDavis Extension where I was asked to write an incident that included a fragment of conversation, keeping as close to the actual incident as possible. 

Then I was to write an invented scene containing that same fragment of conversation.

When we read the two scenes aloud, the class tried to guess which of the two incidents was real and which was fiction.

Not surprisingly, the class often had a difficult time distinguishing between the two.

My Thursday Two Questions to you are:

1. Have you ever mixed fact and fiction, be it in a story you wrote or in the retelling of an incident in your life (you know, those little white lies to make the tale more interesting as in many memoirs and those biographies on TV)?
2. In your opinion, is it okay to stretch the truth a bit for the sake of a good story, or do you draw a sharp line between fact and fiction?

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