“”Story is an event or sequence of events, and narrative discourse is those events as represented”. Narrative, in this view, is the textual actualisation of story, while story is narrative in a virtual form.”

This highlighted section of the reading got me thinking- anything can be a story, but the representation of said story is what becomes a narrative. There are so many possibilities for potential narratives which forever simply remain story ideas. It’s sad there aren’t that many successful writers out there. Like, there are, but there are plenty more stories out there in the minds of people who would never think to just start the “textual actualisation of story”.