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What do I know? What do you already know about fiction or stories? Do you know any famous authors? What’s your favourite story?
What Is Fiction?
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Go to your activity book (see page 7) and complete the fiction knowledge download activity.
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Telling and listening to stories are at the heart of what it means to be human. Fiction is the telling of stories that are in some way imaginary. A writer imagines and creates a world and characters and shares it with their readers. Writers find inspiration for fiction from real life, from old stories, from a person they have met or a place they have visited.
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been.
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Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
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Which of these quotes do you like best? Which quotes do you agree with? Are there any you disagree with?
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A good story is crafted through a process that includes brainstorming, planning, drafting, redrafting and editing. The finished product that we pick up from a library or bookshop is the result of a long writing process.
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