Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
I like small, domestic stories.
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.
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.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.