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Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling
These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coates, Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list - When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres.
You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very...
Language is what honors the vanishing.
Or is language what slows the leaving?...
– Jacqueline Berger, from The Failure of Language (via apoetreflects)
Well, me and Kate went to see him and he made a fire just like appear, didn’t...
– The Emerald Atlas, John Stephens (via justdontellme)