Subtitled: Tell Me the Legends of Long Ago

 

The best thing that I’ve learned from doing whatever I’m doing here, is the true nature of story. Well. As I see it anyway.

As a writer of fiction, I’ve learned my trade. The Art and Craft, it’s called.

I know that there are only 7 major plot lines. That every story is a Hero’s Journey – the journey that we all have to undertake. And a thousand other rules and regs (including how to break them!)

We have fiction and non-fiction – which are really both the same story told from different points of view. We have genre and sub-genre – to cover every taste.

We also have books, TV, films, series, – which all contain all the above.

So the long and the short of it is… Story is told in different forms using 1 of 7 scenarios, and always the Universal Journey of Mankind.

Long ago, though, story was (again) all the above but it was always Oral. Told by the Bard, the Storyteller, the Wise Woman. Story was fluid.

I love books but the printed word never changes once it’s put on paper. The letters don’t jump about in the night and mess it all up. Unlike the characters as they emerge from the storyteller’s mind.

You always get at least one (or usually more for me) who will NOT do as they are told. They run rampant, destroying the carefully crafted plot line and ruining the whole atmos. Or, they sit in the background sulking, and refusing to speak.

Characters. Pah!

Story is life. Life is story.

Some of us were born to change the plot line. We are the disobedient character that will not stop causing merry mayhem.

Everything that I have done here can disappear in a heartbeat. Poof!

Every book ever printed can be burned to ash.

But story will Never Stop.

Life goes on.

:o)