We agree! To lie is to make a statement with the intention of deception, but many view any statement about an event that is not entirely accurate to the way things happened as a lie. For example, the “character” in my story might not have walked with a spring in his step in real life, or he might not have screamed like a banshee in real life, but my retelling of the story requires those characters to have done those things in that way so that I may deliver my retelling of events in the most stimulating way possible. These are necessary overrexagerations from the perspective of a writer, but to someone who does not think this way, they may see them as outright lies! I can remember being asked, “why would you say that someone screamed like a banshee when they merely raised their voice to a degree slightly higher than normal?” At the time, I had no idea why I did that, but now I know it is because it made the retelling of the story so much better!

Thanks for sharing :-)