Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought. Self-expression is never an issue, for, wittingly or unwittingly, all stories, honest and dishonest, wise and foolish, faithfully mirror their maker, exposing his humanity … or lack of it.

Everyone has a different format for how they want to reveal what they are thinking, or what they are seeing, to the audience…I just had to let go of the audience and just started thinking about what I wanted to see.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else’s plan for you.

We all have our individual challenges in any field, the beauty of working in the field of storytelling is you tell it the way you want to. So write the stories you want to see on screen. Support the stories you want to watch. Focus on the ways it is working and make more work. Find the doors that are open to you, and kick them open wide.

Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.

intimate or epic the setting, instinctively the audience draws a circle around the characters and their world, a circumference of experience that’s defined by the nature of the fictional reality. This line may reach inward to the soul, outward into the universe, or in both directions at once. The audience, therefore, expects the storyteller to be an artist of vision who can take his story to those distant depths and ranges.

In order to win your audience over, avoid constantly throwing out ‘preachy’ content that directly tell the audience what to do. The onus rests on the content creators to package the content in a way that allows the audience choose what lesson they want to learn from it. It is our duty as content creators, film makers or story tellers to set the agenda for how we want to be perceived.

If you see what you say, then whatever heard from you, can be seen and visualized by your audience.

It's about how you present. How do you ensure that people understand the story, understand what you're doing, and they are buying into it? So it's actually a science.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

I always want to tell stories. But they must be stories that evolve, like our own lives. Perhaps what I seek is a new kind of story.

Have a story. And make sure it’s a good one. A DAMN good one.