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21 feb 2024 · Do you want to write a true story but need help finding compelling true story concepts to tell? Sometimes reading simple story prompts is the easiest way to get those creative juices flowing. We've put together 101 story prompts that can help inspire your next screenplay based on real-life events.
27 apr 2020 · When writers and directors play fast and loose with the truth, interesting things can happen. So, let’s take a look at writing fiction based on true events. Where the truth can be used in creative ways with Tarantino, Charlie Kaufman, and the Safdie Bros. as our guides. SPOILER ALERT!
- Punching The Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
- The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson
- The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold
- One Last Shot by Kip Wilson
- From Dust, A Flame by Rebecca Podos
- Rust in The Root by Justina Ireland
- As Long as The Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
- All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
The story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day I was born Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then, one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out...
Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She’ll be working in her family’s ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend—whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort—and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from h...
Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He’s done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now, seven years later, being a Jew has be...
The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gerta Pohorylle doesn’t quite fit in with her German classmates. While she’s away at boarding school, however, she becomes a master at reinventing herself as a vibrant, confident young woman. When she returns from school, she joins a group of young activists and is arrested for distributing anti-Nazi propag...
Hannah’s whole life has been spent in motion. Her mother has kept her and her brother, Gabe, on the road for as long as she can remember, leaving a trail of rental homes and faded relationships behind them. No roots, no family but one another, and no explanations. All that changes on Hannah’s seventeenth birthday when she wakes up transformed, a pa...
It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided—between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is indust...
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her b...
Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood. Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist whose father happens to be the town sheriff, never imagined that the Bloodless Murders would come to his backyard. Not until the night the Carlson family was found murdered in their home. Marie Cat...
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has...
It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images ...
84 Metascore. A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Director Damien Chazelle Stars Ryan Gosling Claire Foy Jason Clarke. 9. The Imitation Game.
23 nov 2023 · Need help on a true event essay? These essays usually cover memories, places, or experiences. This article provides instructions, tips, and examples!
30 ott 2023 · 1. The Acrobat, by Edward J. Delaney. Shop at Amazon. If Hollywood ever had royalty, Cary Grant was it. With good looks, charisma, talent, and sophistication in unparalleled combination, the actor, who began his career as a circus performer, remains one of the United States’ most indelible screen idols.
14 giu 2021 · Although I love history and nonfiction books, sometimes recording just the factual details can leave a story a bit dry. That’s why I love historical novels based on true stories. Some of the titles listed are books based on true stories and others are just inspired by true events.
