I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.
I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.