Tom Schmidt

the ABCD framework: What’s Awesome? What’s Boring? What’s Confusing? And what do you not believe? I find that to be a helpful way to get feedback.

"It’s a healthy practice to approach our work with as few accepted rules, starting points, and limitations as possible. Often the standards in our chosen medium are so ubiquitous, we take them for granted. They are invisible and unquestioned. This makes it nearly impossible to think outside the standard paradigm. "

— The excerpt is from The... See more

Your success depends on the risks you take.

Your survival depends on the risks you avoid."

“It's a lot easier than you think to 'beat the odds' because the odds are based on average people. Show up and elevate.”

“Start your story as late into the action as possible. End it as early into the action as possible.”​ – Frank Miller

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. — André Gid

Author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury on the difference between critics and creators:

"Those who don't build must burn."

When you find an edge, shut up about it because talking invites competition and competition destroys profits