Hello fellow travellers,
Come sit by my fire.
We are Storytellers more than anything, realizing that is invaluable. When humanity began so did Storytelling. Explaining what foods to eat, how to start a fire, all of it is based in Storytelling.
For example if you tell some don't eat the green melons. It doesn't carry the weight as telling them about the great hunder Ryan who hunted and fed his tribe. Ryan faced Tigers, and mammoths. The wolves respected him, and he one day saved his tribe from a flood. However after the great flood food was scare and to calm.his great hunger Ryan ate the green melons that grow above the valley, but he became sick and died a painfull death. The wolves mourned him.
It is easier to remember when the message is entertaining, and at the level where it can be understood. A lot of creators spend so much goddamn time trying to be clever that it gets muddled. Entertaining will always be more successfull than clever. Thats why basic action movies do so well. I would also suggest people ready for the lesson are able to understand the tale even more as well.
A lot of writers who have tried to exaplin their amazing idea for a story to me that I just have to get on board and draw 57 issues of their book to change the world are freaking lost and without this concept. Audiences make things epic, not the writer, but most of them are so busy making their Magnum Opus that they skip that concept, and its the worlds fault they didnt get it.
I do not hold high opinions for people who cannot understand that its their job to thrill the audience, and then compain when the audience doesnt care.
Ego and Avarice drive so many of the opportunites we have to be noble into the damn flaming trashbin of history.
Books are gonna start printing…. I prey the goblins leave the press alone.
James Burton
Www.angrybrainworks.com