I once read in John Irving's memoirs titled Try to Save Piggy Sneed that the reality writers put in their stories isn't really true. Sure, most of it is true, but writers exaggerate it or purposely leave out parts.
This has become a source of contention (friendly contention, but still a conflict) between me and my beautiful wife. It seems that I have painted her as someone she is not (at least it someone she doesn't think she is) and I have portrayed myself with equal inaccuracy.
The problem is, she's right. I purposely leave things out or exaggerate something else in order to make the story funnier or to make it flow better. So, when I talk about the fact my wife called me at school to drive home and clean up vomit. I left out the part that school was out and she thought I would have a couple of hours to kill before that night's game.
Leaving out that detail makes her look needy and helpless and makes me look like a saint. The reality is, she would have cleaned it up (albeit, reluctantly) if it would have happened at 10 in the morning.
I think you get my point. It's not an easy balance of truth.
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