I’ve decided to bring an end to my Story Project idea. Why? Well, two reasons.

One, I’m having entirely waaay too much fun writing on this blog every single day. It only took two years, but now I can confidently say that I write a blog called “daily dramatica” because it truly is daily.

I’m fascinated by all the story theory that I didn’t realize I knew. And I love sharing it in this format. Plus I’ve always heard that the best way to learn something is to try and teach it to others. In writing these daily posts and in trying to be articulate about this kind of knowledge, I feel like my own writing has improved.

Which brings me to the second reason for stopping the Story Project.

I’ve got my own stories I want to start writing.

Finally. After two and a half years, maybe three, I’ve finally got a story idea or two I’m actually excited enough about to start writing. And, as with all works of personal creation, I feel like one should keep a story guarded and protected in the beginning. Sharing here would only lessen my enthusiasm for it.

A completed story is the fulfillment of a wish to share

One of the main reasons for writing a story is the desire to share some piece of information or some understanding of life with another person. Documenting the journey along the way would only lessen my drive to finish by the mere fact that what I had hoped to share would already be out there. Better to cradle it and keep it close in the beginning, than set it free before its wings have had time to develop.

You have the “I” perspective as you’re writing. You’re within your work of art. Then, when you are finished you can take a step back and look at the story as a complete finished work. You adopt the “They” perspective and appreciate your story objectively.

I’m not sure what documenting the creation of a story online would be. Almost an “I” perspective of an objective view of something that originally began within that first “I” perspective. Sounds like a recursive process that constantly folds in on itself - almost like a living M.C. Escher painting.

Plus, could I ever get a truly objective view of something while writing about it from a personal perspective? Wouldn’t my experiences writing the original piece actually serve to tarnish the objectivity of such an analysis as I recounted them on a blog? I would be confusing what I had hoped to get across with what really came through with the piece.

Sounds like a nightmare. Writing stories are hard enough.

So instead, I’ll keep my own stories close within. If I ever actually finish them I’ll post them up here.

Until then I’ll just keep writing about the story theory of Dramatica. Daily.

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