Wednesday, October 14, 2009

News is not hearsay

The first man to run a 26-mile marathon was a messenger sent to report the news of the battle. Exhausted, he dropped dead after he reported the news.

Not all reporting is quite that injurious to your health.

Such good news/bad news is the stuff of creative writing.

A story begins with the calm of a summer’s day while in the distance a low thunder rolls. The thunder may be simply a summer phenomenon or it could be the drumming of the hooves of many horsemen come to start a war.

How the happy people face this dilemma is story. more

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