So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.