Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
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Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
There's conflict in every story.
When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
A story is built on characters and reasons.
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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