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To be a good writer, you have to know how to capture moments worth capturing, the right moments. You just don’t seize the moments, you capture them. You just don’t tell about them, you show them.
You’ve to be able to show details of the romance and the romantic feelings without seeming boring, if you’re writing a romantic novel, for example. This is everything. Being able to see details in the things that others overlook is what makes you a great writer. James Cameron wrote, the Titanic, he also directed the movie. This is a love story set on a ship that sank long before he was born. So in other to get a detailed, love story from the actual events, he had to do a lot of research about the Titanic and similar ships, to be able to convince all, if possible, that his story about the Titanic was real or seemed realistic.
His research had to cover not only the big, important, things about the engineering designs, the alloy steel used to build the ship, et cetera, but also the little things. He had to be able to see it based on the data collected and similar ships he witnessed while learning about the Titanic. I praised him for remembering the rats that were running for shelter when the flooding started from the lower deck up. A tiny thing like that might make the difference between something realistic and not.
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