Coming Full Circle
June 11th, 2008 at 3:11 pm (Kim)
Not much of a post today. More of a thought for the day—my allergies are acting up so I’m headachey and tired and feeling quite unimaginative. Not a good combination for writing clever, interesting things.
Still, I did have an intriguing thought. You know the saying that all myths and legends have a kernel of truth in them? It almost seems to me like writing mythic fiction is sort of like bringing things full circle. First, you have the reality, the thing that happened in the real world. Then a myth builds up around it and makes its way through the ages, changing, morphing, growing away from the original truth. And then we take that myth and write a story where that myth or some part of it happens in the real world…Full circle.
That’s it. Nothing more to it, at least not at the moment. Still, it was an interesting thought and something I might want to toy with in future, so there you have it.