Stories about ordinary people are boring
At least, that's my take. I want to read stories about extraordinary people, or stories about animals or aliens or things I didn't know existed.
Even the things you might think are about everyday people really aren't. Does any television show resemble real life in any way? Hardly. "Reality TV" isn't. To say someone's life is like a soap opera (or a telenovela) is to say he has way too much drama, or misfortune, or something going on in his life -- far beyond average.
Even the things you might think are about everyday people really aren't. Does any television show resemble real life in any way? Hardly. "Reality TV" isn't. To say someone's life is like a soap opera (or a telenovela) is to say he has way too much drama, or misfortune, or something going on in his life -- far beyond average.
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You have a good point... I should clarify by saying I was thinking of my freshman writing classes, when so many of us were trying so hard to follow the demand to sound realistic and lifelike. And the result, in my mind, when we read our collective work, was ineffably boring.
and have you read Ray Bradbury yet? he takes the "ordinary" and makes it ABordinary :o)