creativity + creating

How to write a story your readers can't put down: Use the ABDCE framework. It's in countless classics, from Romeo and Juliet to The Great Gatsby. Here's how it works (every writer should know this): https://t.co/5Epln3O2Qu

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is... See more

I think of art as a message in a bottle that I’m sending out there. These are all the things that make me feel vulnerable and human and this is a secret I’m going to whisper into it. And I’m going to send it out into the sea, and hopefully somebody’s going to come back and say, “Me too,” waving from another island.

In order for me to hopefully find... See more

1) Call to Adventure / The Meet Cute

Here’s where the lovers meet. Where the seeds of their relationship are sown. There’s both attraction and conflict. The groundwork for the potential to reach an HEA (happily-ever-after), along with enough conflict to last the length of a novel, is set.

2) Refusal of the Call / Rejection of the Relationship

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All writing about despair is ultimately insincere. Putting fingers to keys or pen to paper is secretly an act of hope, however faint—hope that someone will read your words, hope that someone will understand. Someone who truly feelsdespair wouldn’t bother to tell anyone about it because they wouldn’t expect it to do anything. All text produced in... See more