for we are storymakers, not just storytellers*
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Revelation and evolution hold longform audiences to the screen over years of time. What kills the long-term interest? Repetitiveness and rigidity.**
Robert McKee

Don’t tell the same old story,
Make up some new elements –
Keep yourself interested for the whole odyssey:
And when you fail and fall –
As you will –
Forgive and start over:
The story here is that there is no fix.
To forgive yourselves and others
constantly is necessary.
Not only is everyone screwed up,
but everyone screws up.^

*Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass;
**Robert McKee’s Character;
^Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything.