When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.
The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.
CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.
My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.
It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.
