1 Fiction; 3 Facts #1

The streets are fluded by dark figures, and they walk during the day - facing the sun.

No one look at them - or are they just ignoring what's around? 

They are hunting. Hunting innocents. Innocents that just want to survive to three years of hell. 

This is a exercise that I frequently do. This time is 1 Fiction; 3 Facts, but could also be 3 Fictions; 1 Fact. This exercise help you not only to start some sort of story; but also to understand that facts and fictions are part of a story, and that usually the reader wouldn't understand what's "real" and what's not. 

In the little example that I gave you this is how it's divided:

Fact1: "the streets are fluded by dark figures"

Coimbra Students

Fact2: "They are hunting"

Fact3: "(...) survive to three years (...)

In the third fact I mixed reality with fiction.

Fiction: "They walk during the day - facing the sun."

In Portugal is common students wear this dark and long cloak. Initially started in the oldest school, Coimbra. Nowadays it's spread by Portugal. In every single college. 

It's a ritual - well, kinda, but still, a ritual. 

But I am not going that way - there are people in favour and people against it. (NOTE: if you are going to college in Portugal you can say no. There's nothing wrong with it. It's a choice that you make. Be part of it or not.)