Stories are a different kind of true.
I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.