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''Sometimes, "this is a true story" is part of the fiction.''
Once in a while a really well written story can feel so real that [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|you begin to wonder if it might not be based on a true story]]. Occasionally [[Based on a True Story|this is actually the case]], or [[Based on a Great Big Lie|supposedly so]], but there are times when an author (etc) will go right out of their way to create greater immersion in their work by claiming that their very obviously fictional and fantastic world is in some way real. Usually they claim that they didn't come up with the story, rather it was recounted to them by the actual main characters (or some other witness), often physically, but sometimes by phone or magic. Other times they will claim that they found the account in the form of a diary and novelised it, or, if it is a film, that it is [[The Blair
Another common method is to claim that the book was written as a testimony (or confession) to actual events - possibly the most notable example of this is ''[[The Guild of Specialists Trilogy]]'', which takes the love that boys annuals have for intricate diagrams and maps to its absolute extreme and fabricates not only a plethora of large diagrams, maps, and sketches, but ''photos and objects''. In this version the author pretends they are simply publishing something that someone else has written - this often takes the form of a novelization of a [[The Western Mysteries|diary or a set of notebooks]]. Other methods include [[Sherlock Holmes|accounts by secondary characters]] and so on. This trope a staple of children's books and fantastic tales, it often features an [[Author Avatar]] or even instances of [[From Beyond the Fourth Wall]] or other strangeness and may be said to be [[The Lord of the Rings|translated from accounts of what happened or books written by the characters]] and never actually communicated in person.
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