Windmills
I expected to sit down this evening and have the hours to myself. I planned to sift through the stories I'd written and the ones I hadn't. It didn't work out.
Besides suddenly finding myself with unexpected company, I realized a few of the stories I'd been mapping had already been written. Perhaps not in the exact form that I'd planned to write them, but there they are... already out in the world. A few are considered "timeless classics". How do I live up to that? Insanity.
I suppose I could write the stories anyway. Perhaps I'm seeing parallels where there are none. Or perhaps I'm just working with themes so universal that I could look at classic after classic and see the stories I have in my head and heart. Who would read them? Who would want to read a repeat story? Wouldn't it get to be stale? Or are all stories just reincarnations of tales already told?
Besides suddenly finding myself with unexpected company, I realized a few of the stories I'd been mapping had already been written. Perhaps not in the exact form that I'd planned to write them, but there they are... already out in the world. A few are considered "timeless classics". How do I live up to that? Insanity.
I suppose I could write the stories anyway. Perhaps I'm seeing parallels where there are none. Or perhaps I'm just working with themes so universal that I could look at classic after classic and see the stories I have in my head and heart. Who would read them? Who would want to read a repeat story? Wouldn't it get to be stale? Or are all stories just reincarnations of tales already told?
posted by wlturland at
12:07 AM
1 Comments:
Just do it. There are few original stories any more, that's what archetypes are for, anyway. How many biblical or mythological tales have been reskinned for books/movies today? Lots. Most of them, really. Take for example Jane Austen. Do we really need another send up of Pride and Prejudice from Hollywood? Surely not, but my wife will no doubt see it anyway. The last useful rehash of that storyline was Pride and Prejudice with Zombies -- clever if not imaginative.
I say go for it, unless it's some tired old tweener vampire love story.
--Andy
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