The word 'fictional' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is not real or something that exists only in an imaginary world, such as a story or novel. For example, "The Harry Potter saga is a series of fictional books about a young wizard."
Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker frequently wore his dresses on the red carpet, while her fictional alter-ego Carrie Bradshaw spoke the designer's name in hushed tones.
The film's fictional mortician has a factual inspiration: 27 westerners were in Nanjing when it fell to the Japanese, many exhibiting extreme bravery.
Even as an avid reader who loves books and the beauty of fictional worlds, sometimes even I get bored and can't concentrate on the book I'm trying to get through.
It centres on a Home Guard unit of men too old or unsuited for combat duty in the second world war and was set in the fictional south-coast English town of Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea
Lydia Nicholas's description of the relationship between Douglas Adam's fictional Hitchhiker's Guide and the real life development of the iPad shows how science fiction can effortlessly influence the development of new technology.
During rehearsals, the cast invented The Really Sound Party, a fictional political party which inspired McCarthy to enter politics for real.
Eventually I found a sort of wiggly way out by writing someone else's poetry with Katerina Brac (1985)" – his "translations" of a fictional eastern European poet, the first of several personas he has periodically adopted ever since.
His brilliantly reimagined fictional landscape conjures a hellish vision of the developing world's endemic dislocation.
To the historically minded, it's also amusing that the fears about games are couched in exactly the same terms that 18th-century parents once used about the danger of letting their daughters read novels: they're too isolating, too absorbing; it's not healthy to spend that much time alone feeling strong emotions about a fictional story.
File Burnham alongside the likes of Gatsby or Norman Bates or Willy Loman - a fictional character who resonates beyond the immediate confines of his story.
New Tricks, which follows the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, launched in 2003 with a single 90-minute drama, before it became a full series in 2004.
