From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 6/7/2014 7:14 AM, mumble wrote:   
   > On 06/06/2014 09:00 AM, overload@spam.ftc.gov wrote:   
   >> Character-driven stories come from observation of people. Plot-driven   
   >> stories come from observations of complex systems.   
   >   
   > I chose your last paragraph so as not to snip everything; thanks for   
   > your thoughtful reply.   
   >   
   > You say stories come from this, and stories come from that. Certainly   
   > the observation of people tells one about people, and observation of   
   > complex systems tells one about systems; but where does the *story*   
   > itself come from?   
   >   
   > Is the root of a story always a conflict?   
      
   In the Western tradition they by and large are. There are works of note   
   that do not have them, but they tend not to be ones that you have read.   
   TRISTRAM SHANDY is the best-known.   
      
   In Asian story-telling conflict is not central to the narrative. There   
   was an article about this recently -- googling will probably kick it up.   
      
   Brenda   
      
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