A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.