On a slow train ride from DC last week, I consumed the Identity Crisis graphic novel in a single, greedy sitting. While it wasn't the greatest literary achievment ever, the book reminded me of the joys of serial storytelling--the suspense of what happens in between episodes, issues, or installents of a story released in real time.
I think all writers should read or watch a serial narrative.
No matter if you are writing blog posts or a novel or daily journalism, your writing could use a healthy dose of an entertaining cliffhanger because-- (click here to continue reading)
This morning Bookninja plugged a Guardian essay praising comic book storytelling. (Oddly enough, I met him rather briefly last night before we both got lost on the rainy New York streets, parting like heroes in some novel about the hardboiled lives of book bloggers).
Read this gorgeous tribute to serial storytelling, and find a soap opera, adventure story, or comic book to love...
"So comics get you closer than any other form of art to the illusion of following real events in real time; as in Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", sheer mad bulk of detail seems to be all you need to split the membrane between pure invention and something that tastes like reality."
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