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A thing I’ve learned this year is that story and writing are orthogonal skills. Still haven’t figured out what the core activity of story is. I don’t mean structure/plot/character. I mean something like: If writing is stringing words together, story is stringing ______ together?
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Doesn't work that way. Consider Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn." Stories are nothing just strung together. A story is a portal into the struggle of another human.
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You are the master of temporality 🙇‍♂️ But I understood you to be asking about the core activity of storytelling, not the stories themselves. Storytelling seems to imply also a synchronization of the temporal scheme of the story with the temporal scheme of the audience.
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There’s a bit of a semantic soup here, but my point is mainly that there’s no way to tell stories that lack temporality. You could describe a scene in great detail, verbally or with a camera, but it’s not a story, just an establishing shot, until stuff happens.
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