Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
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.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
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