Fiction that is based on a blend of facts which can be documented as true but made more interesting by a compressed timeline and various character traits combined into one person in the story. The flow of events can be far more interesting… best example I can think of at the moment; the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy” was exaggerated to attract an audience, but the DVD update over ten years later clarifies all the facts and you can get it at the library to get the facts — not available when the public first saw it, but it is intended to entertain the audience, not falsify something, and educate us.

Current example (sorry it is so long)

This article was published in the Connecticut Post but only partially due to limited space. Found it online, but it had a different title where it first appeared in the Greenwich Times.

By Meredith Blake

Staff Correspondent

July 25, 2007

Some people feel they must run a marathon. Others find marathons unsatisfying and instead they are compelled to do a triathlon — a marathon along with a several miles-long ocean swim and a 100-mile-plus bike race, all on the same day. And then there is Thomas Gallagher. Next month the Greenwich businessman will run a 155-mile six-day off-road race across one of the highest, driest deserts in the world, the Atacama Desert in Chile. “This is going to be six days under extraordinary conditions,” Gallagher, 44, said yesterday. The Atacama is so dry, the average yearly rainfall is only about 1 millimeter. In parts of the desert, no rainfall has ever been recorded in modern times. The region is said to be 50 times more arid than California’s Death Valley. It’s also a mile higher, making for thin air, and the temperatures range from the 30s at night to triple digits during the day. What would make a person want to spend six days running through such a place? “There was something that drew me to it,” Gallagher explained.

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[Asked someone at the sponsoring organization about this: and they actually responded. “Many of the areas where the events are held are rich in ancient cultures, for example in the recent Gobi March we ran in an area populated by Tajiks — many had never encountered foreigners before. In the Atacama, we interact with Atacamenos, the first habitants of the area, etc. Actually amazing cultures. I do not know if Tom will do any presentations — you should ask him to do so. Best regards, Mary]

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“It’s adventurous, athletic and universal, and on a very personal level, a kind of spiritual experience and at the end of that week it will be a life-changing experience.” The race is one of four desert races organized each year by Racingtheplanet.com, an organization that says it exists to inspire people to explore the world’s cultures by competing in extreme athletic events in far away places. The other three races are held in the Sahara, the Gobi Desert in China, and Antarctica. To qualify to run the fourth race at the bottom of the world, though, one has to have completed the other three. Gallagher said he learned about the 4 Deserts, as the races are called, while watching the Sahara event on television last Christmas. As if the terrain weren’t going to be challenging enough, Gallagher will have to carry his gear with him -sleeping bag, food, first-aid kit, sun block, etc. — and his backpack can only weigh 20 pounds. The only things provided for him is water, medical attention, and a tent at night, in which he’ll sleep with 10 or so of the other 80 competitors, who come from 16 different countries. Gallagher, an inventor who will soon be selling alarm clocks that play inspirational messages rather than annoying noises to wake people up, has run marathons before, but expects this race to be far different. “A marathon is usually on concrete and you know you can really push it out in one four-hour stretch,” he said. “This is much more complicated, because you have nutrition to manage, hydration, recovery and most importantly, foot management.” Competitors must eat at least 2,000 calories a day and be checked by medical professionals every 8 miles. Gallagher began training for the race in January with a personal trainer. As spring approached, he started running farther, from 5 to 11 miles a day, and doing yoga up to twice a week. The yoga was the key, he said. It helps with balance, stretching, understanding how to work through pain, flexibility and mind control — all things he will need while running over rocks and sand for 25 to 50 miles per day. “I think I have Advil in my future,” the former Goldman Sachs private wealth management vice president joked. Yoga instructor and friend, Laurie Jordon, who helped train Gallagher, said he was crazy to sign up for the race, but admires him for his strength. “There is no doubt he’ll be able to get through it,” she said. “He’s approaching it like everything else in his life, with his whole heart and soul. No matter what he does, he commits himself 100 percent.” Although Gallagher is doing the Atacama race for the adventure, he’s also doing it for charity. He is asking people to sponsor him on a per mile basis to support The Greenwich Chapter of the American Red Cross, Ed Randall’s Bat for the Cure prostate cancer research organization, Malta House and The Michael Bolton Charities. “Although it’s largely a race, many competitors including myself view it as an experience to enjoy and to endure, and where they finish is where they finish,” he said.

For more information on the 4 Deserts races, see www.Racingtheplanet.com. To contact Gallagher, e-mail him at [email protected].

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I wrote to him and he did respond:

The article in the CT Post reminded me of two things, the Kalihari Desert movie “THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY” and the essays of many 5th and 6th Grade students in a Middle School where I once taught. They proposed a trip through all of the major deserts of the world-around after having read the book, “Around the World in 80 Days.” Anyway, are you planning any show and tell after you return to CT?

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Thank you so much for your kind email. The idea from your students is an exciting one. Some have said that to participate in this desert experience one must be “crazy.”

To answer your question, at this point in time, one newspaper reporter asked to do a follow-up story upon my return. I have not yet been asked to speak about the Atacama Crossing, but if such an invitation is forthcoming, I’m sure I’d be pleased to accept. Plan on hearing from me upon my return. While I’m on the course, I will be blogging each day so you can get a sense of what this experience is like. You can find the blog and updated race news by going to the website:

http://www.4deserts.com/atacamacrossing/

Best regards – and be assured of my gratitude for your interest and support.

Tom Gallagher

Fiction is a story that is made up by the author, but believe it or not, there are several kinds of fiction!

The main thing fiction HAS to be, though, is not-entirely-true!

You’re concerned with historical fiction. That would be a story (usually a book) that has bits of real-life, true history in it… but it’s still a made-up story.

I like historical fiction because you learn things even while you think you’re just reading a story someone made up. The true history also gives the made-up story a rich, colorful background.

Besides that, days or years later you might hear or read about the true historical event, and you’ll remember it from that fun story you read, and you’ll find that you actually enjoy learning more about the true history!

Does this help?

Historical Fiction in literature is a story which is set in a certain time period. The authors often use this method to relay actual events to students by means of fictional characters. For example we all know that a long time ago world war 2 happened. Well in historical fiction an author will make up some characters and place them in the midst of this crisis to teach and show the reader how people lived during this time, what scared them, what made them happy, and so on and so forth. In another words when you start to read historical fiction it will be like going back in time and living through those years. I don’t know if this helps you but I hope it does. Good luck!! =)

W.E.B. Griffin has written some really good “historical fiction” novels that deal mostly with the military. A good series to use would be his Brotherhood of War series. The series follows a cast of characters from WWII through the Vietnam war, and is good reading regardless; however, each book could stand alone when evaluating the historical accuracy of the background events. I checked quite a bit of the information out as I was reading the series for the first time, and quite a bit of it was historically accurate, albeit “artistically embellished” for entertainment value.

It’s a story (fictional) set in a period of history. For instance: Gone With the Wind is a historical fiction piece that is set in the American Civil War period.

wow historical fiction means an event that happened in history that was made up like a story about johnny going through a time machiene to christopher columbus’s boat and he and columbous saw amarica and johnny went back to the 21st century. christopher columbus did really see america first but he did not see america with johnny right there. that is a historical fiction

The writer makes up a story about people or places from the past. for example, Marie Antoinette. They research the life of Marie, by looking at what is now known about her life, King Louis, the French Revolution, and so on… Then they imagine what she might have thought or said, and they fill in all the other characters, some that really lived and some that did not.

i think its a fictional story set during a historical event

the people are not real but the main thing is

a fiction story (fiction-is the genre of imaginative narrative) set with historical (historical-of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events) events sometimes these events didnt really happen because again its a fictional(fiction-is the genre of imaginative narrative) story…. and i personaly enjoy historical fiction books!!!!