In my Commonplace...

12/6/2011

"An old novelist friend of mine once told me that all stories are shaped like C's--that is, they leave a certain empty space into which the reader brings his or her own perceptions. That gap is the place where we discover truth ourselves, rather than have it revealed to us.

Stories begin somewhere, then circle around, and, like a flushed rabbit, eventually return somewhere adjacent to where they began, forming something close to a circle. Great stories are not O's; they don't complete themselves, leaving nothing to the reader's own imagination. Really fine stories leave a gap and thus require a reader's participation." James Calvin Schaap

1 Comment

amy in peru link

12/19/2011 09:03:13 am

ooh. so true. :)

thinking and posting of you...

amy in peru

and I just want you to know I didn't even try to make that rhyme.

atchooo! ;)

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