A story is an arc
A story is a curious thing. In the language of authors, it is said to have an arc. Always good with a double entendre’ if you say the word ark it sounds the same as arc, but means something completely different, and yet perhaps ends up the same. The arc of a story carries you from the beginning to the end on a ride that has many turns and trials. But then too, an ark will carry you to a destination on a journey of many turns and trials… so perhaps, they are more alike than at first thought. I was following this arc of the narrative flowing through my head one day and was surprised at the scenery of the tale. While the lines of the tale were meandering through my mind in colors, and the noise of the scene played in the background, I was attentive to the notion that it was simply a tale. Nothing more than a string of ideas and my imagination that made it flow smoothly into the next place of adventure or ease. As the ...