A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.