I wonder, at times, if there are truly no new tales to tell or does everything always sound familiar? What does it take to break that glass barrier? Or is it a concrete barrier we try to push past and discover new tales or, at least, new ways of telling the old tales and speaking the old verse?
Fragments
13 responses to “Fragments”
I’m not sure anyone told Batnipples before.
https://steveforthedeaf.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/batnipples/
It was a thing. But true. Writing a story about it is new 😂
Interesting. My current Storytelling Project goes into the history of stories and how we’re still utilising the old topics, which all come from human nature and how this translates into action. We strive to tell new tales, however I suspect that we won’t have any new material until human nature changes. Have we exhausted the supply of what we’re capable of? Debatable. 🤔
I’m not sure writers are actually exploring the fringe experiences. I could be wrong.
What you suggest could be right. There is still more that can be said.
Yes, I feel this way too. Even when a ‘new’ idea reveals itself, I can’t help but think that, at some point, it has been told before, whether I’m aware of it or not.
And then there is the question of how the story is framed to present it in a seemingly fresh way.Framing seems like a possible path towards telling old stories in new ways. Maybe that is the real question: What is a new framing that makes a story feel new?
You may well be right…
I think they’ve all been told, but if we try we can find some more folks to listen.
As I’ve thought more about this over the past few days, I think it has multiple responses.
1) There are no new tales to tell of the type people want to tell.
2) There are new tales to tell, but people are too busy trying to emulate each other to tell them.
3) People don’t want to read new tales, they want familiar tales told newly.
4) There is maybe a new language needed to tell new tales, but most people are writing looking in the rearview and are not using/creating the new language needed to craft new tales.
5) New language is too subversive to be used to tell new tales. See item 3.
6) I am mad as a hatter.
Be patient and keep telling. Story-time will come around again. TikTok and the rest of it have a limited shelf life to go along with the limited attention span of their users.
Once it is named, the hashtag is already old news.
😂They don’t know it yet, but that is the way it goes.
I was a hashtag before hashtags were cool. #michael_who?
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