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You slogged from the terrifying emptiness of the blank page to the two most beautiful words in a writer's vocabulary: The End.

Before there were books, we read each other.

Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

What draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.

Elmore Leonard famously said that a story is real life with the boring parts left out.

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All
REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

Each scene in your story, ask yourself, If I cut it out, would anything that happens afterward change?

Stories are about people who are uncomfortable.

Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.