[M]any people cramp their own story-telling abilities by creating over-routinized stories, and how interesting stories are about breaking routines.
Interesting idea... But a lot of stories are about routine, and about trying to regain routine.
I wonder if "breaking routine" is within the idea of the story, or external to the story, and about breaking the *reader's* routine, since there are only, what is it, 7 plots in the world? (I promise there's a coherent thought pattern here if you can't see it...)
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Date: 2002-06-10 08:59 am (UTC)Interesting idea... But a lot of stories are about routine, and about trying to regain routine.
I wonder if "breaking routine" is within the idea of the story, or external to the story, and about breaking the *reader's* routine, since there are only, what is it, 7 plots in the world? (I promise there's a coherent thought pattern here if you can't see it...)