We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.