for all the role-players and story-tellers on my friendslist --

[little_lady_d]

from a book i'm reading for my thesis maybe, secondperson: role-playing and story in games and playable media (and the particular article is making games that make stories, by james wallis):

When small children begin to tell their own stories, these may consist only of characters, and this is enough for them. Chicago educationalist Vivian Gussin Paley describes an early story by Mollie, a three-year-old: "Once upon a time there lived a horse and a chicken and a dog. And the next morning there was a robber in the house. That's Frederick. He's the robber. That was scary." Frederick, one of Mollie's friends, has an even shorter story: "Frederick." Paley questions the fact that the story has only one word, but John, a five-year-old, corrects her: "It's not one word. It's one person" (Paley 1986).

and one person is a story. silly.

Comments

[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

Heee, this is really adorable. ^^

(Also, haven't forgotten your tl;dr, I'm kind of drowning in things, but it will come, I promise. ^^)

[little-lady-d.livejournal.com]

adorable and insightful! ^_^

(don't worry about it at all -- i'm really interested, but it'll come when it comes. and i know how it is to be drowning.)