Tell the Fucking Truth, by Josh Stallings

Give us your writer’s manifesto.

Ok…

Fiction is the lie I use to tell the truth. 

This has been my motto since I started writing. I thought it was wise and therefore by discovering it I by extension must be wise. Then the internet came along with is damn fact checking. And I discovered this statement about truth has many variations and has been around a long time. 

In1923 Pablo Picasso said to a reporter, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to under...