The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
– Malcolm Cowley
Tag: mood
Quotable 295
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
– Robert McKee
Quotable 213
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
– Malcolm Cowley
Quotable 154
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Quotable 55
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
– Vita Sackville-West