It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
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