fictive

My goal (not my achievement, my goal) was to work like Joan Didion in a fictive realm.

If it can be made so much like a work of fiction that the subject sketched serves the purposes of a fictive hero, why then—maybe.

She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.

Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.