As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.