And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.
I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.