Fictionalise

Word FICTIONALISE
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Definitions and meanings of "Fictionalise"

What do we mean by fictionalise?

To retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricating falsehoods

To convert something into a novel or other dramatic work

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The word "fictionalise" in example sentences

And yes, I do need the distance in order to be able to write about a place, because as a writer of fiction I need to fictionalise it to some extent, and I would find that difficult to do if I was looking at it through the window as I wrote. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An interesting reaction, since, though she hasn't fictionalise her grief, she has published a 417-page account of it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Doctordi – how we need a Donna Tartt to come along and fictionalise Cambridge in a literary way – that would be so good! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Helen Dunmore, whose novel The Siege is about wartime Leningrad – its sequel, The Betrayal, is about the period immediately before Stalin's death – said that novelists stray into "dangerous territory" when they fictionalise real people. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ben Myers's novel is an attempt to fictionalise what happened to Edwards in the few days – perhaps his last – after he left that hotel. ❋ Paul Owen (2010)

We've reached a point where you can't just fictionalise these stories anymore – there's a wider public understanding of, and a respect for, video games. ❋ Keith Stuart (2010)

Next week, is dialogue week, in which I must fictionalise a conversation with my husband. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How can you fictionalise a crisis why it is still going on? ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the film is as much about family, why didn't Bouchareb fictionalise his story entirely – why hobble it with the baggage of 7/7? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm not sure why I had such a strong reaction to this but Alaric thinks the same way too - he thinks you can't really fictionalise something like this until a yr or so afterwards. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now I would encourage writing about suck heavy subjects as I feel they all to often get swept aside but I also feel you have to be careful and think before you fictionalise such a thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Six hundred words were suggested to tackle the important question of whether it is "right and fair" to fictionalise real-life characters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I really don't understand why we have to fictionalise the Anne Frank story, when young people engage with it anyway," said a spokesperson for the foundation, and she is, of course, completely totally right. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And from Hamlet to Agatha Christie to Goodfellas, we fictionalise murder to come to terms with it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fellow Orange prize winner Helen Dunmore, whose The Siege is about wartime Leningrad and The Betrayal about the period immediately before Stalin's death, said that novelists stray into "dangerous territory" when they fictionalise real people, and said she was "very wary" of putting words into the mouths of characters from history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Novelists are straying into "dangerous territory" when they fictionalise the lives of real historical figures, the Orange prize-winning writer Helen Dunmore – author of bestselling novels about Stalinist Russia – told an audience at the Guardian Hay festival today. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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