Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Why This Story?
The Thirteenth Tree has now had fifty page views over at the other site. That’s a record, and I’m curious to know why. Glenda, which I much prefer, has had a mere six views. What is it that encourages people to read certain stories and not others? I can only assume it’s the title. What else can it be? If anybody wants to offer a different answer, I would be glad to hear it.
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Title, definitely! The Thirteenth Tree suggested mystery and folklore to me, then there's the sense of the sinister linked with the number 13.
Thanks Mel. It's actually why I wrote it in the first place - the fact that there really was a space in the middle of the twelve trees where a thirteenth should have been.
I still have to get there Jeff, maybe by the weekend, but in any case agree with Melanie that the title is the draw. I glance at my bookshelf and see The Thirteenth Tale and Thirteen Treasures, good titles both, in one case better than the story. Just to celebrate the idea further, I was born on the 13th and there was a major blackout in NY on my 13th birthday.. but nothing sinister about it in my case :)
Oddly, Della, I've always avoided 13 out of pure superstition, and yet it's never been unlucky in any way. I gather there is a body of belief which regards it as a lucky number. You're a New Yorker, then?
Well, a former New Yorker, since I've lived out of the States now for 17 years. One takes on new feelings of identity after that amount of time.
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