The Scientist and The Sentence

Friday, January 02, 2026

Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.

The Moon is bright and so are you. O/

Great to be read by you again. Hope all's well.

On with our show...

Friday... so expect another verse of Colore to appear later today.

Writing about writing an American Epic while writing it brings up some new questions and possibilities.

The pacing of posts stays the same due to the requirements of the story. Being a fantasy tale of sorts, details of the world's reality need to be fleshed out in advance.

To some degree.

I've been working those out.

So much of the joy of writing a story comes in the act of discovery.

Authors tend to stress over writing it 'right.'

We study books on craft. And we should.

The desire to better understand our work is self-affirming and potentially beneficial to the finished product.

Potentially because getting too focused on craft dizzies up the dreams we're attempting to convey with details.

If you know how to tell a child a story, and how to write a sentence, you can write a book.

Once upon a time there was an interesting character who had an issue. Until one day something happened that needed fixing. Fixing this issue solved the interesting character's issue. The End.

There are hundreds of years of literary theories, some practical, some far-out fantastical, to explain in detail the 'Once Upon a Time' process of story.

Something about you knows it. Is it innate?

Every known culture knows the same way of story.

We're born into it. The ways of story are as much a part of Life as water is.

The World cannot exist without story.

A Scientist would have to follow the way of story to attempt to prove or disprove that statement...

Once upon a time there was a Scientist who wanted to prove The World's dependency on Story.
Suddenly, the previous sentence appeared.
The Scientist read it, wondered, and called it Proof.
And The Scientist and The Sentence lived happily ever after in a state of wonder.

Thanks for reading, take care, and make wonderful this wonderful day.