Sewing Stories

It’s quite easy to make up stories. You just sit there and write, or talk. You work out what you want and you make the story fit what it is you want.
When the story gets entwined with pieces of truth, it’s even more salacious because everyone wonders who it is, what really happened, how is it going to end?
But you can only tell the same story so many times to the same people. They get weary. They know already.
So you add more spice and detail to keep their attention. But then, alas, once they know that extra bit, they move their attention to the next thing, because aside from that one little piece, they already know the whole story.
How will it end? How do you want it to end?
The sides of good and evil are quite clear but depending on what side your listening from, this ideal is quite blurred.
It’s really important, as a story teller, to be able to judge when the story is stale, and move on to something new and fresh. Like a new pattern perhaps instead a story about why it doesn’t exist yet.
Carry on.