Quantum Storytelling

Novelists are encouraged by the format to ramble. They’re encouraged to info-dump. They’re encouraged to go off inside of a character’s head on thought tangents that the reader probably doesn’t care about.

Why? Because novels are fat and require a lot of pages.

I got the Sin City special edition for Xmas, and I’ve been admiring how clean the production was by working from a graphic novel. Both the graphic novel and the movie are squeaky clean–there isn’t anything more than needed to tell the story.

Miller did go off into Marv’s thoughts for a bit, but it’s forgiveable because it’s told in First Person by Marv himself and used to demonstrate his mental instabilities. And there’s way less of it than there would be in any novel.

Why did I write a novel? I should have written a script, comic book, or graphic novel. When I get done slashing my first draft to ribbons that’s all I’m going to have left anyway. Pure action and dialogue are the only things that will be left.

Novels are overrated.