Telling Tales
Have all the stories been told? If you are a cynic, then yes. No one is saying anything new, all writers are just repeating a handful of narratives with a new paint job. To a point I agree. Generally speaking, new plots are hard to come by. And I’m okay with that. Here’s the deal, we all are influenced by what we read. That’s all there is to it. I’ve talked about this before, but it’s true. Most writers try to keep reading, even while they are creating. It helps, believe me. Where I diverge from the cynical side of the observation is this idea that there is nothing new, or nothing original. Just because we are reading the same basic narrative doesn’t mean it can’t be done in a new, or exciting way. Who the characters are, their flaws, their loves, their struggles these are the aspects that make a book/story worth reading. Even if the idea is still as basic as stop the bad guy before he destroys the world, the details of the world, the people,