stories

To become a better writer I have gone through a lot of material about writing. Knowing about those things helps me pay attention to such things on my own texts. It's also good to read a lot and pay attention how others write. But there is a problem when this has become such an automatic habit to me that I read basically all text which such critical view.

The Arthurian legend is probably the most retold story of all time. There might be more popular themes, but they usually tend to be more abstract where these stories usually always refers or claim to be the "true" story. Most of the stories share the same characters, places and events, but the setting can vary widely. 

What makes the arthurian legends unique is that it's not quite history, but it's not strictly folklore either. There isn't one original story upon which all the later stories would be based on.

There are pictures, windows to a different worlds. Paintings describing a moment frozen in time. The details are exact, unchanging. There is no room for doubt. 

But what lies beyond the frames? There os a whole world out there beyond what we see. There are stories, a whole history leading to that particular moment. A future unknown, as real as it's past. 

We see a same picture. But our minds are already working. Expanding the picture, showing us what lies out there, out of our reach. All the possibilities, the could be's. 

Often, I have to explain highly technical concepts to people who are unfamiliar even with the basics. It's hard to educate them in a short time prior to getting to the actual subject. It might not even worth the effort as they don't need to understand the underlying details to grasp the core of what I'm trying to tell them.