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Suffering is the essence of storytelling. From suffering gives birth to desire. With opposing desire there is conflict. From conflict there is storytelling. Characters cannot obtain satisfaction. For if they obtain it so too does the story end. Those who suffer are alive and those who do not are dead.
There are stories with little to no conflict, and filled with copious fluff. Yet something as simple as not being able to pet the dog is still suffering. And from it desire, conflict and thus storytelling. What makes a character suffer defines their personality, world view, what they want, what they need. But most of all the meaning of their existence. Not from the narrative, but that they need not be written if they do not suffer.
The source of suffering is conflict, from which there is external and internal. From the external it is the land, the people, the gods. With the internal is the body, the demon, the soul. From these sources suffering achieves complexity. Finding satisfaction contrasts another source of suffering. Through which desire, conflict, storytelling.
Yet, suffering is exhausting. It is grueling, painful, dirty. Suffering is the essence of storytelling. But it's not everything.
There are stories with little to no conflict, and filled with copious fluff. Yet something as simple as not being able to pet the dog is still suffering. And from it desire, conflict and thus storytelling. What makes a character suffer defines their personality, world view, what they want, what they need. But most of all the meaning of their existence. Not from the narrative, but that they need not be written if they do not suffer.
The source of suffering is conflict, from which there is external and internal. From the external it is the land, the people, the gods. With the internal is the body, the demon, the soul. From these sources suffering achieves complexity. Finding satisfaction contrasts another source of suffering. Through which desire, conflict, storytelling.
Yet, suffering is exhausting. It is grueling, painful, dirty. Suffering is the essence of storytelling. But it's not everything.