Week Seven Prompt

I read the article from the smoking gun, "A Million Little Lies". I'll start off by saying that I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with embellishing the truth when you're writing a book. It helps the story, as a story, flow better. However, stories that are "based on true events" are advertised as such. They are based on true events. This tells the reader, or viewers in the case of television/movies, that while the plot itself is true, there may be some details enhanced, removed, or added.

Frey's book doesn't do that.

He insists that it's all true, that he may have embellished a little bit, but that everything in the book really happened. The Smoking Gun disagrees, and so do I.

In interviews, Frey reveals that he tried multiple times to get his story published as fiction, and was denied time and time again. The moment he tagged it as a nonfiction memoir, it was snapped up and thrown on Oprah's list.

In my opinion, this is the author version of clickbait. Advertise in such a way as to draw in viewers, when the actual material is bland and banal.