Every Writer Should Watch This 60 Second Video

Malcolm Gladwell is on to something.  He spends a lot of time interviewing successful people to get to the heart of how they got there.  What results is some combination of commonality and theme… and inspiration.

Jim Carrey, like or love him or not, is one of the most successful comedians in the world.  Talk about writing… try being funny on the page sometime, it’s one of the most challenging tricks of all.  But like most great comics, there’s a heart beating beneath all that goofiness, and Carry shares it here.

Is writing your dream?  Then you need to see this.

Watch it HERE.

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Wanted to share this one with you, too… a little piece of news, surrounded by content you may find useful.

The website Boost Blog Traffic (a monster in that niche) just posted an article entitled, “9 Essential Books That Will Transform Your Writing Forever.”   The list includes “Save The Cat” by Blake Snyder, and “On Writing” by Stephen King.

It also includes “Story Engineering,” by yours truly.  I guess all those irritating analogies didn’t wreck it for everyone.  Thanks to all of you that have helped make SE a success.  If you didn’t catch the announcement earlier, “Story Engineering” is being published in China, I’m flying to Beijing in July (courtesy of the Chinese publisher) to help with the rollout, do press and give two writing workshops… one of which is for a gathering of Chinese literary professors from China’s top universities.

Now that is some scary sh*t, pardon my Mandarin.

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“Story Engineering” also got a shout out on Leisa Malik‘s terrific website, which is running some stuff from the book on character building in stories.  Her site is terrific, hope you’ll check it out.

Every Writer Should Watch This 60 Second Video is a post from: Larry Brooks at storyfix.com

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