Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.
Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.
We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.