It is the nature of prose that it is linear. There's a beginning, a middle and a end. That has been a fact of life for storytellers since the beginning of time, and the rules of drama have been around since the ancient Greeks, and are still taught in scriptwriting courses. As many innovations writers have played with, mixing up time and space, it's always been page two following page one, everything in a particular order. Even a crazy-backwards story like Memento was crafted with a...
Published on April 13, 2010 05:00