The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
No longer do I sing, dance or draw pictures; but God has granted me the gift to do them all in my stories.
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.
