A true war story is not about the “happening truth” but the “emotional truth.” Sometimes fiction can actually feel more true to life than an account of the simple facts. Consider a strong emotion that you have felt about something in your life. Write a fictionalized personal narrative essay using a powerful image or event that possibly never happened, but represents or expresses the emotions you felt in the real moment. In some ways, this is like a tall tale, where you exaggerate or alter the truth to help your reader understand what it really felt like, since they weren’t there and can’t understand the truth.
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