I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
The telling of stories creates the real world.
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
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