A Quote by Michael Boatman
I love a story that balances pace with detail.
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I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.
I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.
Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.
Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.
There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
On television one gets to do things in detail and at an easier pace. You can experiment a lot with the character, give it lot more time, and let it grow.
The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.
The detail of my art depends entirely on the project itself. I tend to be a little more detail-oriented with covers than I am with interior pages, and I try to reduce the detail on action sequences as opposed to suspense passages.
When I began, I was more of a swing bowler with little pace, but I realized it will be difficult to sustain without the pace, so my fitness has now allowed me maybe an extra yard of pace. That has been the secret of my success.
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean.
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