The gift of grief is a well-honed bullshit radar.There are many things you can fake or hide, including from yourself, but hitting rock bottom blows everything wide open.
To have a story, characters have to be placed into situations where they have to make choices, and those choices have to have consequences for both the character and the story. In other words: things have to happen.
"You just have to trust that you are drawing a line round something and you don't know where the line is going to end. If you already know what shape you're drawing then you are not developing your craft." — Es Devlin
What I’m looking for when I ask people questions normally is something one of my producers calls “the look away,” which is when someone is going back into their memory and really living in that space, and often they’ll break eye contact with you and look away because they’re not really with you anymore. And that’s the goal, to get someone there as ... See more