Many of us get our writing ideas from true life incidents, but sometimes those reality pieces fit together too neatly or in too strange a way to make believable fiction.
For example: A man is found dead, thrown off a side of a road. The medical examiner opines he died a week or more before his body was spotted by a family cleaning out their barn. He was strangled and his carotid artery was punctured. A more unfortunate detail is he was found off the side of Carrion Lane.
So the question, being of no use to those of us who waste their time or who do not waste their time writing, is have you ever dealt with truth that was too strange to make into fiction?
Carrion: the decaying flesh of an animal.
For example: A man is found dead, thrown off a side of a road. The medical examiner opines he died a week or more before his body was spotted by a family cleaning out their barn. He was strangled and his carotid artery was punctured. A more unfortunate detail is he was found off the side of Carrion Lane.
So the question, being of no use to those of us who waste their time or who do not waste their time writing, is have you ever dealt with truth that was too strange to make into fiction?
Carrion: the decaying flesh of an animal.
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