Truth is stranger than fiction
Writing Prompt
Have you ever used the term reality or truth is stranger than fiction? Or heard someone else use it?
For your writing prompt today try and remember one of those strange events in your or someone else’s life. Write from a first-person point of view. You could be experiencing the strange event, witnessing it or even causing it.
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Maybe you want to write from the perspective of the dog who started a fire because it chewed on a lithium battery, or the dog who is first sprayed with the perfume Dolce & Gabbana developed exclusively for dogs.
Or what about the chair dangling on the edge of a building that became a tourist attraction?
The phrase ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ was first used by Lord Byron in his poem ‘Don Juan’. (Source: Book Browse)