Storytelling — Harmon vs. McKee
I’ve been on a gigantic yak-shave for the last few months exploring storytelling theories, so I figured I’d start a new blogchain to compile my findings.
I've been on a gigantic yak-shave for the last few months exploring storytelling theories, so I figured I'd start a new blogchain to compile my findings. Discuss with vgr_zirp → The most useful line about storytelling I've read so far is this line from Walter Benjamin , quoted at the opening of Reality Hunger : "All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one." I realized the line accurately describes all stories I like, and also everything I attempt in my own fiction experiments, whether or not I succeed. Hitchhiker's Guide , for example, dissolved the genre of space opera
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