on story-telling

there is no such thing as a great story-writer.
this is true.

there are, however, wonderful story tellers everywhere, and that's a subtle difference. because (never begin a sentence with 'because'. ever. unless you really want to.) none of the really good stories are anything so simple as written down. you can't write one, because in some sense the story's always existed, independent of anything. it simply lives itself through you, and most of the time you're just a spectator as it unfolds itself through your hands, thankful to get to be a part of it. characters, spaces, moments exist, have existed forever in a sort of timeless immortality, all you did was provide a channel from here to there for them to take on the sort of permanence we only feel in our own concrete universe.
the universe of stories is a space of drifting moments, encapsulating emotions, and above all a sort of floating feeling of reality where you're not tied down by anything so physically banal as gravity.

who were they? i can't say..they could be you and i.