A Case for Telling the Truth in Fiction

...we can use things from real life to make our fiction stories come alive!
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[@JadieAlissia]

That's an interesting thing to think about! I often use snippets of my personal experience for my stories, even if it's not exactly the same experience. E.g. in my scifi, though I'd never been on a spaceship obviously, I could use my experience of being on a 30hour plane flight to try to realistically picture this emotion. Though it's not the same experience, I feel like the similarities helped me write the scene better. Some of my characters also become similar to some of my friends as I write :) I find that writing scenes for which I have relevant experience for (even if it's not exact, or just "emotional" experience) is much easier than ones I have zero experience with.