If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.
If you're going to clutter up the world with more novels, you should do a little more than entertain people.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
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.
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.
Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.