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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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Obviously writing is just one versatile way to do story. You could do wordless cartoon stories, mime stories, and at a stretch non-lyrical music that has story like structure. So obviously writing ≠ story at an intellectual level. But what _is_ story qua story. A strong if what?
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* string of, not strong if, 2 tweets up 😖 I have a theory: it is a string of events that produce time. Literally. Time doesn’t exist in the mind until it is conjured up via special events that manufacture atoms of anticipation to create story. Without story we are blind to time
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I think there’s something to this. Writing is about attentiveness to language, storytelling is about attentiveness to events (characters add another dimensions to it, so perhaps it is events and characters organized in time)
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