What is the difference between a myth and a story?
I think a story is anything that happens. So anything you can tell a person about what has happened is a story. A myth is a larger, symbolic story thats told to illustrate a point or illustrate a truth. So the classic myths were (a lot of times designed) to explain natural phenomena or explain human emotions. Mythological gods, mythological characters are there to represent parts of ourselves or parts of our experiences and sort of an idealized version. What frustrates the Will character so much is that his father tells these stories that are clearly not even remotely possible, these idealized versions of how the father saw his life. So one of the major things I added to the story is that the Will character is a journalist. He works for United Press, so his job is to find the facts. So looking at the stories his father tells, there really are no facts, and its frustrating that his father maintains these things really happened when they couldnt have possibly happened. So the story becom
