I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.
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Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.
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