My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
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