An anthropomorphic green duck dressed in whimsical skimpy clothing and having purple curls and makeup like a Pixie Girl is today's cover image for the Quackcast! Art by Ozoneocean!

This week's #Quackcast is about

Fictional Trops in Reality!

Listen to us DD admins talk about people incarnating tropes in real life that usually are thought of as too over the top for RL!

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#podcast #tropes #webcomics #comics #truthinfiction

Some stories entertain. Others hit a nerve. Some do both.

The ones that stay with you? They're usually not perfect. But they’re honest.

What makes a story feel true to you? #DouglasRobbins #TruthInFiction #DeepFiction

After years of writing, revising, and starting over—my sister and I BOTH have our novels featured in the September issue of Kirkus Reviews. Same month, same magazine. After DECADES of separate work! 🦋

#AuthorLife
#IndieAuthorCommunity
#FictionThatMatters
#TruthInFiction
#YAfiction
#KeepWriting

💔 How far would a mother go to support her child? Discover Lek’s true story in Behind The Smile
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#Parenting #BehindTheSmile #ParentsUnseen #TruthInFiction #Sacrifice #booktokenglish

“[She] had no idea if at 32 she was still young. Being in your thirties was very confusing in that respect.” The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
#truthinfiction #booksky #quotes

Based on a true story that happed to me...
🕵️ Andropov’s Cuckoo is fiction.
…Except the middle chapters — those are real.
I lived it.
She lived it.
You won’t believe it.
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#ColdWarMemoir #TruthInFiction #StoriesBasedOnTruth #OwenJones #booktokwales #book

Can’t wait for the new season of Law & Order: SVU 👀📺
I wonder how they’ll spin the current administration’s distraction tactics with the Epstein files.
You just know it’ll involve a fake app, college elites, and a powerful donor.

#SVUPlotline #EpsteinFiles #StayWoke #TruthInFiction #NewSeasonEnergy

The Lebensborn Experiment | Citi of Books In the final days of the war, Sergeant Kapp Johnson is being held prisoner in the dungeon of a medieval castle in the Black Forest. While he and another soldier from his all-black battalion await cere...

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#ExtensiveBloigCampaign #LebensbornExperiment #WWIIHistory #JoyceYvetteDavis #HolocaustHistory #TruthInFiction #BookSky #CitiOfBooks

What’s the most honest sentence you’ve ever written?

I only have so much patience for reality.

That's part of this WIP and hits home even more recently.

#TruthInFiction #5amwritersclub #AuthorsofTwitter #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WIP #IndieAuthor #HIP #OnceUponAQuestion

What’s the most honest sentence you’ve ever written?

#TruthInFiction #5amwritersclub #AuthorsofTwitter #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WIP #IndieAuthor #HIP #OnceUponAQuestion

It started with a comment.
It ended with a punch.
Guess who got suspended.

📘 The Line Between by Kelvin Morrison

📲 www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9V3PKYX

#TheLineBetween #YAfiction #BlackVoices #TruthInFiction #ComingOfAge #BookTok #IndieAuthor #HallwayScene

What if your childhood was a government experiment?
Bill Yarborough’s Memories of MK-ULTRA—a chilling debut based on real events—is featured at #LATFOB2025.

Full scoop here: arpressllc.com/PPgo8C

Author’s website👇
🔗https://billyarborough.com/

#MKULTRA #BillYarborough #TruthInFiction

Beyond the headlines, beneath the surface... lies the novelist's realm. "The novel is the privileged territory of the truth that lies, of the truth that hides behind appearances." - Mario Vargas Llosa. A profound insight from a literary giant. He understood the power of narrative to unveil the hidden currents of reality. What "truths that lie" have you encountered in literature? Share your thoughts! #MarioVargasLlosa #Literature #TruthInFiction #NarrativePower

Beyond the headlines, beneath the surface... lies the novelist's realm.

"The novel is the privileged territory of the truth that lies, of the truth that hides behind appearances."

— Mario Vargas Llosa.

#MarioVargasLlosa #Literature #TruthInFiction #NarrativePower

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“The Book of Mormon, The Musical,” was a particularly nice touch. 😆🤣👍
#wow #stories #truthinfiction 🗽🇺🇸🦅

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I will continue to research, talk to friends, family and experts in the fields about which I write, and guarantee the authentic, human experiences represented in my books are created by a real, authentic human being.
#Truthinfiction.
Laura E. James.

#Booksky #ContemporaryChristianFiction #truthinfiction #TheRoseCollection #PlagueofLies #TwistsTurnsandCurves #NoLongerInvisible #Reinvention #WiseandMighty #TheArtofPersisting #TheNecessityofKindness

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso #Art #TruthInFiction #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife