And yet factual truth is not and should not be the cornerstone of great writing nor great storytelling.
Truth lies in as much in experience as in fact.
Ophelia did not exist, this a true thing. But her experiences did. The suggestion met with some resistance, as some of the early online diarists wanted to hold on to the uniqueness of what they were doing. During his University of Hawaii student-newspaper editorship, Ryan Ozawa had created her, photos and all, as a parody of a ditzy UH student who was putting her life online for the world to see. But Mr. Bueno, though his name sounds like it could be made up, is very real.