Ironglow:
That's why I avoid much story telling. I got tired of hearing long winded colorful and articulate accounts of somebody taking out the garbage, then going to visit Aunt Tillie at the poetry festival. A good example of such drivel is prairie home companion radio show. Lots of people like that, but I sure won't spend any time on it.
I won't bother with any stories that don't involve fundamentally fascinating facts or fictions. For example, Elmer Keith was a crappy writer in a technical sense, but a brilliant writer in truth because he had interesting things to say. Peter Capstick was a brilliant writer with a brilliant editor, and he had marvelous stories. He's a legend now.
To paraphrase Truman Capote, another brilliant writer, "there's a difference between typing and writing".
If I want mundane, I'll go wash some dishes and marvel at the excitement and romance of trying a new detergent, narrowly averting disaster by detecting an unsafe knife blade just in the nick of time before cutting myself, and refusing to put some kitchen utensil away because of the bitterness I harbor toward my wife, who insists that it be in one drawer while I believe it should be in another.
