Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 11:18:38 GMT 7
If a rule prevents history from happening, then the rule must change. Separatrix In writing for the web it is said that content is King ( Content is King , a phrase coined by Bill Gates in 1996, referring to the internet as a content market), but it is also like this in creative writing: the story, that is, the content , he is King, he commands, he dictates the rules. Have you ever been amazed that dragons fly? No, you just accepted it: dragons fly. Have you ever wondered why they can fly? No, nor do we care to know. We don't have to read an anatomy book about dragons. This is an extreme example to reiterate the concept that history comes before anything else.
A dragon flying is more believable than a Boeing landing vertically like a helicopter. Tex who always emerges alive and almost unscathed from every shooting is more believable than a man who spends 2 months in the desert without food or water and survives. Pinocchio becoming a real child is even more believable than the Boeing helicopter and the desert survivor. History is King. The 6 fundamental Special Data elements of a story according to Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett was a humorous fantasy writer who passed away 5 years ago. According to him, a story is made up of 6 elements: Earth, fire, air, water : the 4 natural elements of the real world, of the physical world. Surprise : because in a self-respecting story it cannot and must not be missing. Narrative causality or narrativium : according to Pratchett it is the most common element in his Disc World, but it does not exist in the Round World (i.e. ours). It is the element that ensures that everything works.
The narrativium is the glue of the narrative. It's what keeps us focused on what's best for our story. Reality is reality, a story is a story Ever since I started trying my hand at creative writing I always wondered how credible what I was writing was. And by believable I meant realistic. This is where I was wrong: credible means plausible, nothing more. A novel and a short story are plausible stories, not realistic ones. It is the reader who asks: if he wanted a realistic story, he would stay in real life, the one he lives and observes every day. If he's reading a novel, then he wants something different, he wants a story with a narrative arc.
A dragon flying is more believable than a Boeing landing vertically like a helicopter. Tex who always emerges alive and almost unscathed from every shooting is more believable than a man who spends 2 months in the desert without food or water and survives. Pinocchio becoming a real child is even more believable than the Boeing helicopter and the desert survivor. History is King. The 6 fundamental Special Data elements of a story according to Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett was a humorous fantasy writer who passed away 5 years ago. According to him, a story is made up of 6 elements: Earth, fire, air, water : the 4 natural elements of the real world, of the physical world. Surprise : because in a self-respecting story it cannot and must not be missing. Narrative causality or narrativium : according to Pratchett it is the most common element in his Disc World, but it does not exist in the Round World (i.e. ours). It is the element that ensures that everything works.
The narrativium is the glue of the narrative. It's what keeps us focused on what's best for our story. Reality is reality, a story is a story Ever since I started trying my hand at creative writing I always wondered how credible what I was writing was. And by believable I meant realistic. This is where I was wrong: credible means plausible, nothing more. A novel and a short story are plausible stories, not realistic ones. It is the reader who asks: if he wanted a realistic story, he would stay in real life, the one he lives and observes every day. If he's reading a novel, then he wants something different, he wants a story with a narrative arc.