“Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.” WritingTwoStoriesSituationSolveFeaturesShort Story Author:Gene Wolfe
“I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?” WellsHas BeensStoriesProblemWrittenKingsExcitingSolveLandingStarks Author:George R. R. Martin
“You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.” WritingTryingStoriesReaderSolvePuzzlesDetectivesDetective Stories Author:Christopher Bollen
“Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.” GivingStoriesImpossibleTasksSolveGood Story Author:Carl Reiner
“Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.” WayWantTryingBookSometimesCharacterStoriesProblemDreamMemoriesForgetBrainFiguresLike YouSolveCaptureMixturesGood BookOur MemoriesHallucinationsArchetypeI Like You Author:Ali Banisadr