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I like Johnstone's idea: "Describe a routine, then interrupt it." Story is stringing interrupted routines together. Implicitly, routines stretch infinitely before the beginning and after the end.
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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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Yeah, (don’t need to tell *you* this but) there’s a kind of continuity between: >moment-to-moment updating as one executes a behavior plan >larger scale development as one executes a style of behavior plan (general hero’s journey) >enlightenment (archetypal hero’s journey)
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Yeah I think it begins and ends in indefinite routine. The story begins just late enough to establish the routine that will be broken by the inciting incident, and ends as soon as the new routine that results from the transformation is established as such.
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Exactly! Per Romeo Stevens, post-enlightenment, self-states appear as transient Mr. Meseeks-like characters, who exist (painfully) to achieve a goal and then disappear Also Heidegger on subject-object consciousness only appearing when routine is broken
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