It is also, as I discovered while researching the book, fatal to good record keeping: creating a string of disconnection, context-free updates, rather than the kind of consistent narrative you might find on a blog.
But the task of drawing a consistent narrative over the course of a season is a daunting one for a game that takes place in bite-sized matches, and there's still some room for improvement.
I also needed tools to tell the story within a consistent narrative.
This doesn't mean having the academics be the sole representatives of their ideas, but rather ensuring that politicians deliver a consistent narrative to the American people that is both intelligent and thoughtful.
This production has a fairly consistent narrative and the way it evokes dread is more psychologically perceptive than most shows on Broadway.
Despite the intermittently exhilarating cleverness and consistent narrative flamboyance of John Hyams's "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning," which I was tipped off to by tweets from Vishnevetsky and others, it's a movie of hints and possibilities, of occasional inventiveness punctuating a long drone of banality, the work of a major riff-ripper, not of a free and total creator.
What emerges from these texts is a historically consistent narrative of the tiger as a harmful and terrifying beast that threatens humans thus vermin by definition, the elimination of which is viewed as a daunting task that requires extraordinary strength and courage.
Ms. Prince-Bythewood does a wonderful job of creating an atmosphere for her characters -- particularly for the superb Ms. Lathan -- but the movie fails to fashion a consistent narrative.
Diane Taylor criticises both the coalition government for having "maintained a consistent narrative that child detention has ended", as well as the "adulation" of organisations like Citizens UK, who campaigned so hard for this historic change (Still locking up children, 24 October).
