The Shades of Fact

The real world sometimes intrudes into the world of storytelling. That's okay, though. Storytellers have got a fix for that. Several fixes, actually. This is usually known as "artistic license".

Here are some of the methods used to massage factual events into ... something interesting.

See also:
 * Information Desk
 * Truth and Lies

This list should go from most-factual to most-fanciful.


 * Real Life
 * News Broadcast
 * Documentary
 * Truth in Television
 * Dramatization
 * Based On a True Story
 * Freakier Than Fiction
 * Ripped From the Headlines
 * Docu Soap
 * But It Really Happened
 * Inspired By
 * Documentary of Lies
 * Twisting the Words
 * Manipulative Editing
 * Very Loosely Based On a True Story
 * Roman a Clef
 * Polish the Turd
 * Quote Mine
 * Based On a Great Big Lie
 * Worked Shoot
 * Reality Retcon