what is story?

it's hard - I don't have a story to tell.

Story telling has never been something i find interesting, more the reason why I've spent 20 years of my life without creative writing, except once.

There isn't anything I connected to - and then I remembered there is one thing that won me a round of praises back at GCSE creative writing - divorce.

It is strange to say, one can portray the term in so many different ways it is almost like untouched diamond ore, all it needs is polish over and over.

Who knows? It's something I did want to expand on when writing the story.

I have no experience in script writing or story development (and I'm not going to start pretending I do) so to aid the objective I'm currently reading this book called Developing Story Ideas by Michael Rabiger.

(I found this book when researching about his other book - Directing - film techniques and anesthetics.)

The book is useful and guides me every step of the way as to how I could get that imaginative brain of mine to start working magic.

I found myself asking the same question from day one

what is story?

here's the perfect answer I found

'"Art", said the French realist writer Émile Zola, "is a corner of nature seen through a temperament." By deliberately seeing through your own vivid and particular intelligence, you give us the causes effects, injustices, and beauty of a world that nobody else has seen in quite your way...' (page 17 - Developing Story Ideas by Michael Rabiger - accessed on 23rd Dec 08)

reassuring - I'm starting to get excited about this, it feels like an untouched mine - so many unforeseen opportunities, each and every one of them unique.