- What is the difference between telling someone else's story and telling your own son what is the difference between writing a fictional story and writing a nonfiction story?

In fiction, authors show—they communicate information indirectly through dialogue, characterization, a character’s observations, and an endless variety of infinite techniques that evoke emotional responses in the reader (and more importantly, that avoid exposition). Because the author has allowed the reader to interpret that characterization—to make it her own, rather than the author’s—it has more resonance.

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Nonfiction can use the same techniques, as well as stories to illustrate key points: proof points, case studies, personal anecdotes or metaphors. Or, as in The Power of Now, they can be stories/metaphors that exist in our culture, like Christian or Buddhist parables. Stories allow a reader to make a connection in their own mind; they suggest rather than dictate.

One of the best ways to answer such a question is to reflect on your own experiences in this realm.  For instance, find an example of an art sample that has been told through narration.  What did you like about the narrative style featured?  Were you able to follow the plot and development of characterizations in an effective manner?  Did it work well for you and fit your style of appreciation?  Applying the same questions to a drama will be able to reflect much about how you perceive the experience of art.  No doubt that some of the strengths in both lie in reader and artist comfort, but being able to personally relate in your own terms and experience what you saw as the differences between narration and dramatic production would be able to highlight the experiences of both in more concrete terms.

Good question. The first post mainly showed the weakness of drama, but there is also a positive point of drama that narration does not have. One important point to keep in mind is that...

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