Do you ever do this? Go through an entire narrative in your head or like, an imaginary conversation with someone, or some fantasy that you wouldn't share in public, and then frown at yourself and say, "no, no, no, it's not going to be that kind of story."
Because that kind of story is the one you've already experienced before, in a bad made-for-TV movie or in a novel you picked up from the 99 cent bin at the airport. It might even be from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, but it's still pretty predictable.
Because the vast majority of narrative trajectories are predictable and therefore, lame.
And maybe it's unfair for you (by you, I mean me) to build your own/my own stories around other people and their lives. And maybe it's unfair for other people to cast you as a character in their imaginary narrative. Because that's not life. That's a mixture of projection and hyper-creativity. And I'd like to think that life is better than a 99 cent bin novel, even though sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's kind of worse than a 99 cent bin novel.
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