The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to fiction: Fiction – narrative which is made up by the author.
Literary work, it also includes theatrical, cinematic, documental, and musical work.
In contrast to this is non-fiction, which deals exclusively in factual events (for example, biographies, histories).
Semi-fiction or a fictionalization is fiction implementing a great deal of non-fiction;[1] for example, a fictional description based on a true story.
Genre fiction – plot-driven fiction Narrative technique – any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want — in other words, a strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting.