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  2. Fictitious persons disclaimer - Wikipedia

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    An additional example was the 1980 film The Idolmaker, based on a fictional talent promoter who discovers a talentless teenage boy and turns him into a manufactured star. Singer Fabian , whose career path was similar to the fictional singer depicted in the film, took offense at the caricature, and the production company responded by bringing up ...

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction - Wikipedia

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    Presenting backstories of fictional elements as real-world historical accounts. For example, an in-universe perspective might describe the history of Starfleet from the Star Trek franchise in a manner similar to that of the US Air Force, giving extensive detail to topics such as creation, fleet composition, battles, and key events. Instead ...

  4. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Literary fiction is a term that distinguishes certain fictional works that possess commonly held qualities to readers outside genre fiction. [ citation needed ] Literary fiction is any fiction that attempts to engage with one or more truths or questions, hence relevant to a broad scope of humanity as a form of expression.

  5. Wikipedia:Myth versus fiction - Wikipedia

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    The article on Jesus, a potentially obvious candidate for the words "myth" or "fiction", generally refrains from using either, except in the context of the Christ Myth Theory. There are places where the use of myth may seem obvious, but would in fact be inappropriate. Take for example Jesus. While the skeptical reader might find the stories of ...

  6. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In Hungary, telephone numbers are in the format 06 + area code + subscriber number, where the area code is a single digit 1 for Budapest, the capital, followed by a seven digit subscriber number, and two digits followed by either seven (for cell phone numbers) or six digits (others). for other areas, cell phone numbers or non-geographic numbers ...

  7. Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Fiction writing is the process by which an author or creator produces a fictional work. Some elements of the writing process may be planned in advance, while others may come about spontaneously. Fiction writers use different writing styles and have distinct writers' voices when writing fictional stories. [38]

  8. Fictitious entry - Wikipedia

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    In August 2005, The New Oxford American Dictionary gained media coverage [2] when it was leaked that the second edition contained at least one fictional entry. This later was determined to be the word " esquivalience ", defined as "the wilful avoidance of one's official responsibilities", which had been added to the edition published in 2001. [ 9 ]

  9. Non-fiction - Wikipedia

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    Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. [1] Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information. However, some non-fiction ranges into more ...