The problem with the truth
Does your story need to be true? This is my answer: it needs to be true to yourself. The French author Jules Renard once said that “as soon as the truth goes beyond five lines it is a novel.” The problem with the truth is that once we think we’ve got it we want to endorse it to everybody. So our truth becomes everybody’s truth. And you know what it comes next. Maybe, we should ask these honest question when we’re planning to tell a story: - What is my angle in this story? Wha