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Q&A How to tell a story with the least amount of writing?

I love to invent stories and come up with ideas, but I don't have the patience to fill out all the details that is usually a part of a novel. (For those of you familiar with Myers-Briggs or Jungian...

1 answer  ·  posted 12y ago by erikric‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T02:41:30Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar erikric‭ · 2019-12-08T02:41:30Z (almost 5 years ago)
I love to invent stories and come up with ideas, but I don't have the patience to fill out all the details that is usually a part of a novel. (For those of you familiar with Myers-Briggs or Jungian psychology, I'm talking about the curse of the Intuitives). Said in another way, I want to design stories rather than write them.

What genre or format is the most efficient way to tell a story when you want to focus on narratives and not on prose? I would for instance assume that a screenplay takes less writing than a novel. Not necessarily less time, but less actual writing (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Just to get it straight, I realize that any story creation takes time. I just want to spend that time thinking more than writing.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2013-01-20T16:06:31Z (almost 12 years ago)
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