Magic of Storytelling

The human memory always blends in truth with fiction, sometimes without people even realizing it. You might remember a particular event in a certain way, while someone else remembers the same thing happened entirely different. However, the blending of this fiction, makes a story interesting. Some stories are just boring with all the truth, you need that fiction to make and unknown factor, something to make you think even deeper about the story. "You know, its funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don' t recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world" (Forrest Gump).

"A good lie, if told nobly, for good reason, seems to me preferable to a very boring and pedestrian truth, which can lie, too." (O'Brien). Explained here by O'Brien, a lie can make a story much more interesting than the truth ever could. It embellishes the story and can blow it up a bit to make it draw in the audience more. I believe that small lies incorporated throughout a story, without destroying the integrity of it, is much better and more entertaining because you are drawn in and begin to think about it. If the audience thinks deeply and attempts to decipher your story, you know you have told a successful story.