Your Stories Await You
Thank you to everyone who has signed up for a monthly short story. It truly means a lot to me. These stories have been a joy to write and I truly believe that a story is not complete, until it has been read. This is a concept communicated so well by Orson Scott Card.
"The "true" story is not the one that exists in my mind; it is certainly not the written words on the bound paper that you hold in your hands. The story in my mind is nothing but a hope; the text of the story is the tool I created in order to try to make that hope a reality. The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears. The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory.
If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together."
- Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game
If you haven't had a chance to read (or listen) to the inaugural story The Missing Piece, I hope you get a chance soon. Phil (the main character) is out there, waiting to be completed by your "own experience...desires...hopes and fears." After you've taken time to enter into Phil's story, it would be an honor to hear about your experience there. Please feel free to leave a comment on The Missing Piece page.
For those of you who would like to sign up for the monthly story plan (the One Plan) please head to this link.
Again, I'm deeply honored that you would take the time to enter into this storytelling adventure alongside me.
-Nate
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