I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.