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NATURAL STORIES
“Natural stories are the foundation of any dramatic narrative. This is such an obvious fact that you almost lose sight of it. In fact, a lot of writers lose their way on this point. We think we have to make something special, something original. And we do. But what is original is just a small change in the deeply familiar. And what is deeply familiar? All that is deeply familiar to us is a series of stories, not archetypical stories, but stories we are involved in every day, stories whose mechanics we understand completely. It is a prerequisite for creating something surprising or interesting that the foundation for it is something we know the mechanics of. These are the stories that interest me.”
– Mogens Rukov
