One has to be very selective about what is essential for driving the story and what isn't. You leave out some things that are lovely, but unfortunately it is necessary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
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