From years of working with writers and teaching about the Universal Story I've come to believe that we’re all on the same transformative journey, child, adult - all of us together. Without a map of the journey, we're often left reeling, feeling slapped by life and confused. I have that map and I'm eager to share it with you. Step away from the drama swirling in life Understand how your own personal story alignes with the Universal Story Appreciate the forces both supporting and interfering …
27 Step Tutorial How Do I Plot a Novel Memoir Screenplay
The original 27 Step Tutorial How Do I Plot a Novel Memoir Screenplay Viewed over 160,000 times The 27-Step Tutorial: How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay? sprang out my passion for teaching plot, my first book Blockbuster Plots Pure and Simple and all the workshops and retreats and conferences I've taught. I was offered a contract to write The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master mid-way through filming the original series and the tutorial helped shaped …
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Writing a Story is Like a Vision Quest
Give birth to the dream of writing a novel-finishing a screenplay-publishing a memoir is like a vision quest The journey offers the gift of transformation, one that is often deep and profound. Along the way to crafting a story and living a writer’s life, it is easy to get detoured. You find yourself wandering aimlessly and meeting one dead-end moment after another. Whether you're in the flow of writing a story or stalled and blocked, there comes a time in all of our lives when you feel …
21-Days to Goal: How to Be Your Best at the Start of the New Year Starting Today!
The trick to starting off the new year on more solid-footing, begin now.1) Think about how you'd like 2015 to be for yourself personally (I appreciate how difficult the task to separate yourself out from your family and friends and community at large. For this exercise, try). If the entire year feels too daunting, visualize simply the very best January you can imagine for yourself personally.2) Write a long-term - 21day -- goal of the skill(s), belief(s), ability(s), habit(s) you wish to take …
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Examples of the 2 Most Common Templates for Developing Characters
For examples of the 2 most common templates for developing characters I wrote about earlier in Characters in Action-Driven Novels and Those in Character-Driven Stories, I turn to the movies. A few nights ago, engrossed in The Hundred-Foot Journey directed by Lasse Hallström from a screenplay written by Steven Knight and adapted from Richard C. Morais' 2010 novel The Hundred-Foot Journey, I was struck how perfectly Hassan exemplifies the character-driven profile while Papa Kadam assertively …
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