What constitutes a story? Is it format, material or it’s ability to provide closure?

Leaving Tuesdays ‘unlecturing lecture’, I admit I was a bit lost. Unlike other lectures, the assignments weren’t mentioned, nor was the course guide. Our laptops were even asked to be shut. What? A lecture theatre without the pathetically indiscreet blue and white gleam of Facebook newsfeeds. I know, crazy! However, throughout this seminar, Adrian presented some very unique ideas about the fundamentals of stories and books. Engaging with us through questions like ‘what makes a story?’ ‘Why do they always have an ending?’ and ‘is every piece of writing a story?, I found myself being questioned on something so seemingly simplistic that I had never thought how contextual it could be. So upon leaving the lecture theatre I began to think, maybe books do a have an ending – a physical end to what is written on the page in front of you, but that doesn’t mean your thought processing or your ideas just come to a holt. perhaps your thoughts that simply an unwritten continuation of the story?

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