play in our mind
by the bastard child
Posted to Stories on 2003-05-11 21:29:00
Parent message is 446887
yes. it is intentional that the story read as a stage direction/play. the attempt behind it was to cast the reader right in the middle of the action as if they were their themselves and the best way I could think of doing this is to write it in the format of stage direction. as for it becoming an actual play/screenplay i’m not so sure a like it as it is and i think that it might lose some of the asides if it was to actually be performed. besides i see the role of stories as films for people minds and in that respect this is a film for each of the people who happen to read it.