There are two basic types of stories in fiction. One is ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Such as the people in Belfast living through the "Troubles" in the late 1960s.
The other type is extraordinary people doing what for them is ordinary things. Think superheroes saving the world.
Ordinary people doing ordinary things would be rather boring, I think. So you have to add extraordinary drama to their lives to make a story.
Extraordinary people doing ordinary things (such as going to work, taking kids to soccer practice) would also be boring. But them doing things that are for them ordinary (saving the world) is not boring.
And that's my theory of fiction writing.
What do you think? Am I nuts? Or do you agree. Let me know in the comments below.
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