Never standing still; that a river is. If a Story is going to be like a river it must also be made of fluid stuff: at once familiar but the details unknown. So a story may flow with a familiar arch of triumph, but the hero must not know his own strength until it is needed. Also the writer must not entirely know how his own story will end. The story’s end must be created by the hero he has made not by the guy behind the keyboard. That is how a story and a river are similar: the unknown. The unwritten part and the yet unread part are what draws us into the wet. Ha, ha. Both parts so fun.
Never standing still; that a river is.
If a Story is going to be like a river it must also be made of fluid stuff: at once familiar but the details unknown. So a story may flow with a familiar arch of triumph, but the hero must not know his own strength until it is needed. Also the writer must not entirely know how his own story will end. The story’s end must be created by the hero he has made not by the guy behind the keyboard.
That is how a story and a river are similar: the unknown. The unwritten part and the yet unread part are what draws us into the wet. Ha, ha. Both parts so fun.
Excellently put!