Appendix 1: Story vs. Narrative

THE DEFINITIONS

So here is how I roughly define the two terms:

NARRATIVE - The series of events that occur in the search for the solution to a problem.

STORY - The complete circular journey from non-narrative to narrative, then back to non-narrative.

What this means is that “a series of events” that never gets out of the And, And, And mode of the non-narrative world is not, technically speaking, a story. This means that a resume or chronology is not a story. A series of events doesn’t become a story until a problem is established, which sets up the narrative part of the journey, which is the heart of the story.