2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future

T is for Thread

If we stop and consider our journey up to this moment, as we look back to the very first day we arrived here, we shall see that we entered into a lifetime of relationships. From the beginning, with our birth mother, followed by other family members, and then, literally every other person we have encountered along the journey, this thing called “our life” has been interwoven like a string of fine pearls on one single invisible silver thread called “relationship.” ~ Relationships: The Silver Thread

The Thread of the Story

A narrative thread, or plot thread (or, more ambiguously, a storyline), refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry “all-knowing” sort of narration. Thus the narrative threads experienced by different but specific characters or sets of characters are those seen in the eyes of those characters that together form a plot element or subplot in the work of fiction. In this sense, each narrative thread is the narrative portion of a work that pertains to the world view of the participating characters cognizant of their piece of the whole, and they may be the villains, the protagonists, a supporting character, or a relatively disinterested official utilized by the author, each…