The Nature of Stories

The Nature of Stories is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake's American Nightmare. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.

Manuscript text[]

Stories come naturally to us. We can't help it. There are many different worlds, many competing realities within our heads, fueled by books, television, even barely remembered childhood tales. There's an endless supply of fictional concepts more familiar to us than anything or anyone real. We have a far greater connection to the fictional characters we know and love than the random people we pass on the street. Our destinies and inspirations are shaped by lies, myths and fables.

Location[]

This page can be found on the back door of the delivery truck parked outside the main observatory.

Manuscript Pages (Alan Wake's American Nightmare)
Note: The number next to the page indicates the act in which they can be found.
Rest Stop	Alan Wake, the Writer¹ • Hunting Mr. Scratch¹ • Rewriting Reality¹ • The Devil is in the Details¹ • The Splitter¹ • Too Many Legs¹ • The Twisted Mirror¹ • New Reality: The Satellite¹ • The Appearance of Mr. Scratch² • Pages and Instincts¹ • My Best Friend² • Wake's Friends² • Night Springs, the Cult TV Show² • Night Springs, Arizona² • The Spectre² • Emma Sloan² • Old Gods of Asgard³ • Barry and the Old Gods³ • Old Gods in the Studio³ • The Giant³ • Emma and Mr. Scratch³
Observatory	Success¹ • Pressure¹ • The Genesis of Mr. Scratch¹ • Fighting the Taken¹ • The Spiders¹ • New Reality: Fragment 1¹ • The Darkness² • Lost in the Dark Place² • The Nature of Stories² • Cosmological Truths² • The Taken² • Dr. Meadows² • New Reality: Fragment 2² • Everything Is as Real as Everything Else³ • Dr. Meadows and Mr. Scratch³ • New Reality: Fragment 3³
Drive-In Theater	Bright Falls¹ • Alice¹ • What Really Matters¹ • The Grenadier¹ • A Car in Flight¹ • Survival in the Dark Place² • Equilibrium² • The Doppelganger² • Mr. Scratch's Trap² • The Plan² • The Dangers of Creation² • Serena Valdivia² • Focusing the Beam³ • Serena and Mr. Scratch³ • The Clothes³ • Alice's Film³