If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.