My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.
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