The word "fictionalize" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this word when you want to describe the process of making something, usually a story, novel, or play, into a work of fiction. For example, you could say, "The author fictionalized his childhood memories in a short story."
Virginia Woolf was not invited into "Life Class," largely because she trails too much of her own myth: "You can't fictionalize a character who has already become fiction".
Likewise, she argues, alternative gender presentations involving attire or fantasy can "fictionalize" gender, where in all cases the "fiction" requires a reader (221).
Their secrecy permitted those who opposed them to speculate about and often fictionalize dramatically their secret activities, producing many of the myths about inquisitions that are found in European literature from the 16th century to the present.
In the late 12th century, Icelandic authors began to fictionalize the early part of their history (c. 900 1050), and a new literary genre was born: the sagas of Icelanders.
Cercas writes that he originally tried to fictionalize the event and turn it into "a strange experimental version of The Three Musketeers"; that's exactly how the book turned out, and he didn't have to fictionalize a thing.
She did some minor tinkering with "Pioneer Girl," but, once it was decided to fictionalize the memoir as a children's story — the idea had come from an editor who rejected the memoir — she took a more aggressive role.
(Ida is a fictional, or perhaps fictionalized, character).
Neither the word "fictionalized" nor any word suggesting fictionalization appeared.
He was fictionalized as Hyman Roth Lee Strasbergg) in (1974).
Fictionalized as Nucky Thompson on, Johnson cut a far different figure from the slender actor, Steve Buscemi, who portrayed him.
This unique manuscript, however, is also highly fictionalized, making it an important contribution to the novelization of the slave narrative signaled by the complex authorial voice in Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom and the extensive use of dialogue in Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
