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In one of my wanderings through the interwebs, I stumbled upon the idea that "neutral stories are boring". A neutral story is a story that doesn't support any side, i.e. an impartial story that jus...
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System
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2019-12-08T07:17:14Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Yuuza
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2019-12-08T07:17:14Z (almost 5 years ago)
In one of my wanderings through the interwebs, I stumbled upon the idea that "neutral stories are boring". A neutral story is a story that doesn't support any side, i.e. an impartial story that just shows the facts and you decide who is the hero and who is the villain or whether there is any difference between them. I think I can hypothesize why is that, on a psychological level. No one likes to be told or to find out that they made the wrong choice, so the reader likes to be sure that the side they are rooting for is the rightest side. That sureness generally comes from the side the story is supporting the most, who the story is implying that has the point and is right (usually the protagonist). But is that so? Can impartial stories be considered "boring" because there's no support to any side? Should I bear that in mind when I write this type of story?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-11-05T22:23:07Z (about 7 years ago)
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