meikuree

I like the... magic that happens when writers or creators zoom in and strive at precision and incisiveness and end up with something greater than those parts. and when they end up with a somehow "universal" story, not universal because its message is diluted into generic statements, but because its commentary is damning enough, cutting enough to be timeless. simply the idea that in wanting to avoid tepid broad appeal you arrive at something like it but better.

Yessss I love this. It reminds me of the writing advice about "writing small," like you can't encompass the horrors of a war in vague generalities about violence being bad, but by writing about the child's abandoned shoe left on the road.