When writing a book am i allowed to make up a school in a real city and place?

or does the school have to be real also is making up a town in a real state good to? do authors do this?When writing a book am i allowed to make up a school in a real city and place?
Of course you can create whatever you want in a book, but unless you're writing out-and-out fantasy, don't make it TOO different from reality -- a basis in fact makes it easier for the reader to believe it.





If you're writing about a school, just change it a little. If you go to John F Kennedy High School, change it to another president's name -- Franklin Pierce High, for instance, but leave everything else as it is.





You can make up new towns, too -- but check an atlas and make sure there really ISN'T already a town with that name! (Look for an online gazeteer or just do a simple Google search for the name).When writing a book am i allowed to make up a school in a real city and place?
It's called ';fiction';!
Of course. There are many books like this.
the more creative it is, the better the read........go for it.....
writing fiction is like playing god...you can create places, people, events, twist history, stretch reality...the universe is yours and limited only by the breadth of your imagination...most of my stories take place in Manhattan, but hardly any of the actual buildings i use are real, i just love the atmosphere and the attitude of the big apple...go, play, have fun, invent!
It is your book and your story. you can call things what ever you want.
No. Many fictional novels place the locales in real places,but the characters and many locales are fictional. Dickens placed his novels in London or other actual English settings ,but ';Bleak House'; was not a real house; nor was Nathanial Hawthorne's ';House of the Seven Gables';, placed in the real town of Salem, Massachusetts.





Authors often make up fictional towns or locales ,such as Fitzgerald's East Egg, in the ';Great Gatsby';, and Thomas Hardy invented the English County of ';Wessex'; as the locale for his novel ';Far From the Madding Crowd';.





You can make your locales as fictional or as real as you want to, depending on how you envision the story. Placing them in real locations gives some point of reference, The ';Da Vinci Code'; was set in modern Europe, and many of the scenes took place in actual locations, but of course the situations were fictional, as were some of the other locations: the homes and buildings visited or described did not really exist within those locations.





Fictional locales give you the freedom to build your world the way you want it to be. It's your choice. Don't feel constrained by reality when writing fiction -- be creative and imaginative!