Steven Pressfield
I’ll get notes sometimes from young writers, in which they’ll refer to their “WIP,” i.e. their work-in-progress.
Read MoreI come from down in the valley,
Read MoreThe “Get to ‘I love you’” principle works for tragic endings too. Even if the lovers are torn apart by fate or necessity, if we as storytellers can leave them with a moment where they declare their love, even if it’s silent or doomed … we’ve got something good.
Read MoreIt doesn’t have to be romantic lovers to make this storytelling principle work. It can be friends. It can be enemies.
Read MoreWe said in last week’s post that an extremely useful principle of storytelling is “Get to ‘I love you’.” Meaning structure the novel or movie so that two clashing opposite or unlikely people move from indifference to each other (or outright hostility) to that great moment when they can look in each other’s eyes and say, “I love you.”
Read MoreOne of the principles I (sometimes) use in structuring a story is: Get to “I love you.”
Read MoreMy friend Paul is writing a cop novel. He’s never written anything so ambitious before; he’s in unknown territory, over his head. Even scarier for him, his story is coming out very dark. “I mean twisted, weird-dark,” he says. “So dark it’s scaring me.”
Read MoreThe Fifth Rule of the Artist’s Journey is:
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