Up: [[Sharing]] Created: 2024-08-15 Updated: 2025-04-16 > [!Orbit] Miranda France in *The Writing School* > Everyone has a story inside, but in most cases extraction proves too difficult, even for talented writers; because having a story isn't the same as being able to fill a hundred, two hundred or three hundred pages with incident and atmosphere, to create breathing characters, to calibration the tension, hit the moments of revelation at the right time and shape a narrative arc that sometimes seems as elusive as a double rainbow. (p. 70) I have always thought that it would be incredible to be able to sit down at a keyboard and create a story from my mind. I’ve also always known that I don’t have the kind of mind needed to write fiction. I could, conceivably, write literary non-fiction. Just as the amalgamation of text and visual image appeals to me, so too does story and research. However, when I read Miranda France’s words and recognize the truth of them, I know that I don't want to do that work. I know that I do not, despite being one of the diminishing number of writers who read a lot.