When you’re writing your story—whether it’s YOUR story or a fictional story, a historical story or the story of your own readers’ particular struggle—you MUST know that the main character you’re writing about begins in a chaos of lies.
Read MoreLife is not linear. It’s not a straight line from Point A to Point B. It’s more like a loop or a spiral, in which you keep coming back to a new starting point after every project. And no matter how successful you get, you will never really arrive.
Read More“The end” doesn’t mean you need to know your last scene right away. The end is your goal, your North Star, whatever gives you direction, motivation, ambition, determination.
Read MoreDon’t know where to start? Start where you are—at the end—and work your way back. The voices, the words, the images, are already there waiting for you, which means there are more to unearth.
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