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Forget Story Structure: Newton has it right.
Hello everybody,
But don’t forget it entirely, it has its place, but I find it constricting when I’m in the first stages of writing. I always feel like I’m being hindered and not helped. Story structures, like the three-act story structure, the story circle, etc. only help me later on in the writing process. I ran into the problem that I’d have actual garbage. There was rhythm and there was reason, but they seemed to fight with each other instead of working together. So, I set out to rectify this problem because sorting through the garbage that was my book to piece together something understandable took up a lot of my time until I decided to strip it down to the core. I asked myself what is the story structure? It’s a sequence of events that make up the story at its core anyways. A sequence of events one after the other, the first being the cause and the latter being the effect.
Cause and effect- I felt like an apple pelted me in the face instead of it aesthetically hitting the top of my head. Thinking about writing this way isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I just think back to the quote by Flannery O’Connor “fiction is everything human” (O’Connor 68) so why wouldn’t writing follow the same rules by which we’re bound. Even though in writing we can write things that defy the laws of physics, the character and events still have to follow…
