No.

GAAAAAAAAAAH. Let me paint a picture for you of a less-than-ideal situation:

• Writer completes assignment, 3 days under deadline. Coming in under deadline means life is good: Writer smiles. Believes again in the magicalness of it all, that fantasies can be real-- Santa, Tooth Fairy, an actually funny episode of Glee.
• 72 hours later, 4:00 pm on a holiday weekend Friday, Writer receives email from editor to this effect: "really liked your piece, but the lead felt contrived and doesn't get to the heart of your story. We really need to hook the readers...do you have a colorful anecdote from your source that you could inject into the story? I'll need the rewrite by Tuesday."
  
• Writer then has desire to morph into killer kitty, complete with machine gun and wall of flames. Just kidding. Not really...

Now of course, I'll have the rewrite completed by 5:00 this afternoon (over achiever for life) and I'll send it along with a cheery note of how pleased I am to be of help! When really, I want to explain that no, I do not have a "colorful" anecdote from my source. Because in fact, I'm pretty sure the person I talked to was actually the color gray. Seriously, put me on the phone with a ding-dang-ol' Crayola and I would have gotten more lively material [SEE: post on 'How Not to Phone Interview] And because I would rather read a Dan Brown book [SEE: scraping out my eyeballs and brain cells with a shrimp fork] before calling the nincompoop non-conversationalist again, I will spin a magical tale of greatness from absolutely no new pieces of information.

In other words, I will employ my personal mission statement:

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.