What is fiction?

What do I know?

What do you already know about fiction or stories? Do you know any famous authors? What’s your favourite story? Go to your activity book (see page 7) and complete the fiction knowledge download activity.

What Is Fiction? 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. Imagine Brainstorm

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been.

Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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. Plan Draft Redraft

Fiction is like a spider’s Writing fiction is web, attached ever so lightly the act of weaving a perhaps, but still attached to series of lies to arrive life at all four corners. at a greater truth.

Virginia Woolf, Khaled Hosseini A Room of One’s Own

Which of these quotes do you like best? Which quotes do you agree with? Are there any you disagree with?

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