As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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