Story Rules
by Shi Aidong
About This Novel
A folktale is a structurally stable functional combination, a self-organizing system, a tree of life. Once a story begins its life process, it will grow, graft, bloom, and bear fruit on its own. It will also mutate with changes in time and space, and die as the entropy of life increases. In the story, what kind of character does the hero have, what equipment is needed when leaving home, when will the magical assistant appear, why the traitor is always the uncle of the hero, and why misunderstandings are always unavoidable. All plots have a relatively stable structure or routine, and all routines are the optimal results of mutual constraints between specific functions. The structure of the story is both stable and growing. In the seemingly disordered growth, there are always some optimal configurations and optimal endings. Specific problems always correspond to specific solutions. Every popular folktale is the best way to play a game in a specific language.
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