Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales http://1001tales.posterous.com tracing the roots & tendrils of storytelling today posterous.com Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:58:56 -0800 A Timeline of the 'Lost' Universe - Interactive Feature http://1001tales.posterous.com/a-timeline-of-the-lost-universe-interactive-f http://1001tales.posterous.com/a-timeline-of-the-lost-universe-interactive-f

The NY Times just posted an interactive chronology of LOST with interview clips from Damon Lindehof & Carlton Cuse, executive producers. I love hearing non-linear storytelling being championed here as THE way we tell stories as I've been working with this idea for years.

What is very interesting is the tension that emerges between the story-writers' resistance to anchoring the events of the series with exact dates, as they want the audience to focus on characters & relationships, and LOST fans' very clear need to organize the cryptic events into a clear & comprehensible time-line.

Perhaps the lesson here is to remember how much we fall back on the familiar axes of time & space to organize fragmented narratives. Very interesting!

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