The way we tell stories is not keeping pace with the technology we use to tell them. The invention of the camera in 1841 was the cumulation of hundreds of years of optics and chemistry research. Photojournalism followed within a decade, and moving pictures premiered 30 years later. Photography has developed over almost two centuries of experimentation to deposit us with the contemporary state of the art. Despite the wealth of technology surrounding natural text processing, the novel is still the same as it has been for the past 400 years. People are consuming old fashioned stories on platforms suited to grander, more enthralling experiences. It's time to create them.