Truth seldom makes for a good product. Fiction can be optimally thrilling, engaging, easy to understand, intuitive, and on-message. The truth is whatever it is

Truth seldom makes for a good product. Fiction can be optimally thrilling, engaging, easy to understand, intuitive, and on-message. The truth is whatever it is. With great skill one can make a messy truth easier to understand and more plausible... but what for truth takes great effort to construct is nearly automatic for fiction.