Stories are made of scenes, but scenes aren’t just a way to get from A-C, each scene is a story with its own beginning, middle and end, and its own emotional arc.
– J. Michael Straczynski
Tag: beginning
Quotable 280
The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning.
– Sam Shepard
Quotable 265
Structure is the key to narrative. These are the crucial questions any storyteller must answer: Where does it begin? Where does the beginning start to end and the middle begin? Where does the middle start to end and the end begin?
– Nora Ephron
Quotable 231
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
– Richard Wilbur
Quotable 230
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
— Stephen King
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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
– Malcolm Cowley
Quotable 189
I never started from ideas but always from character.
– Ivan Turgenev