Posted by smokeymadison on July 24, 2005, at 11:56:02
i have been working on some ideas for a collection of short stories. they would go together in a sequence of particular meaning.
i started with the loss of memory but i think that in order to find a meeting place btw it and myth i am going to have to go with collective memory. or the idea of personal myth might work.
collective memory is the way in which a particular group of people have put their memories together in order to create a sense of their legacy, their past and the way in which the future will be played out. i could find a match btw collective memory and myth, focusing on how particular events have become legendary for a specific group of people through the joining of different people's own memories.
or i could try to match memory with personal myth. people create myths of their own lives for themselves in order to efficiently react to the world. i could bring in the idea of archetypes and how certain ones exist in each of us through the personal myths that we create. memory, of course, is necessary for the creation of these personal myths.
what i don't want to do is to simply write stories based on old myths and archetypes (litlle red riding hood, jack and jill, etc.) i want to make people have to think about what they are reading and to discover some insight into how society (collective memory) or they (personal myth) work.
any ideas, comments would be appreciated.
SM
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