Lolo De Puzlo!

There’s something that always sticks in my head whenever I think of storytelling that came from a comment someone I heard make once. We were talking about stories and they commented “All stories should give a lesson.” There was something really off-putting to that comment that it’s stuck with me whenever I think of stories of whatever media I’m partaking in. It’s something I find with particularly politically motivated people who feel that all fiction should advance a cause, but that’s a world of propaganda isn’t it?

There's something about fiction that I find weaken is when the author specifically builds a world to prove a point. It doesn't feel lived. It feels manipulated. Let stories live the lives that tell stories in which things just happen but they just do.

I don't know exactly what point I'm making here, but it was something on my mind.