A Story Is…
July 10th, 2009 | Ramblings
If you’ve checked out the sidebar, you know that I’ve recently been reading a book called Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, by David Gerrold. Well, one of the exercises in it is to figure out what a story is to you. You’re just supposed to sit down with a notepad or at your computer, write ‘A story is…’ and then finish the sentence. There’s no right or wrong answer, it’s just an exercise to help you clarify what you think a story is.
My answer took awhile to come up with, but I think it works, for both non-fiction or fiction stories:
“A story is the framework through which we teach each other about the world and about ourselves.”
What do you think? What is a story to you?