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Hamilton (1908) on the purpose of fiction: six checks on whether your story is true to life
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A documentary note on the opening of Chapter I of a 1908 craft book on fiction, for writers and screenwriters checking their own stories against a period account of fact, truth and imagination. It gives six questions drawn from the chapter. They are the curator's reading, untested, and the rest of the book is not covered.
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Hamilton (1908) on the purpose of fiction: six checks on whether your story is true to life
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A documentary note on the opening of Chapter I of a 1908 craft book on fiction, for writers and screenwriters checking their own stories against a period account of fact, truth and imagination. It gives six questions drawn from the chapter. They are the curator's reading, untested, and the rest of the book is not covered.
Useful starting points
- The chapter separates fact from truth: invented events are meant to carry a general truth, not record what happened.
- It lists where a story can lapse from truth: theme, characterization, plotting, dialogue and comments on characters.
- The edition and copyright lines are quoted as the file words them; the note draws no legal conclusion.
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