DEGREES OF STORIES
The vocabulary I use for the majority of my conversations, online and off, is not spectacular. I try to avoid "like" and "very". I relish the opportunity to use "minion" and "indigo", although they are few and far between.
When speaking of types of stories, there is a vocabulary that implies the degree or scope of the plot. And I am not talking about word count or the difference between a novel and a novella.
Something can be just a story, although that is a rather generic term. A folktale is a more specific kind of story, and an old wives' tale something different from that. Then all the elderly married women moved to the outskirts of a major metropolitan city and urban legends were born. Moving up the scale and getting lofty, there is the myth. And while it may encompass a legend or two and some myths, there is vast scope expected from an epic.
And to be truly grandiose, one could write a mythical legend of epic proportions.
With indigo minions.
When speaking of types of stories, there is a vocabulary that implies the degree or scope of the plot. And I am not talking about word count or the difference between a novel and a novella.
Something can be just a story, although that is a rather generic term. A folktale is a more specific kind of story, and an old wives' tale something different from that. Then all the elderly married women moved to the outskirts of a major metropolitan city and urban legends were born. Moving up the scale and getting lofty, there is the myth. And while it may encompass a legend or two and some myths, there is vast scope expected from an epic.
And to be truly grandiose, one could write a mythical legend of epic proportions.
With indigo minions.
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