writing 101
What is fiction?
writing 101
What is fiction?
Good stories are explorations of the human condition; thrilling voyages into foreign minds.
Seek out the moments when you felt your heart move.
Remember: First identify a good story, and only then see what problems it might help solve.
They help storytellers understand the mechanics of a story — such as structure, character arcs, and conflict — without dictating specific choices.
That’s how we find what we need: We start with ourselves. Our personal experiences. Our observations of the world. Our successes and failures and everything in between. From there, we find stories, and from those stories, we can find the content we need to connect, communicate, and convince. Almost all my metaphors are personal stories or
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