“So if your Story doesn’t change your lead character irrevocably from beginning to end, no one will deeply care about it. It may entertain them, but it will have little effect on them. It will be forgotten. We want characters… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share
“So if your Story doesn’t change your lead character irrevocably from beginning to end, no one will deeply care about it. It may entertain them, but it will have little effect on them. It will be forgotten. We want characters in stories that take on the myriad of challenges to change their lives and somehow make it through, with invaluable… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share
“External conflict is the sizzle that gets bottoms in movie seats and books on bestseller lists. As consumers, we have concrete expectations of these Genres as we’ve all been exposed to thousands of them since birth. Again, Genre conventions and obligatory scenes satisfy those expectations. While a reader/viewer may not be able to pinpoint what exactly it is they want… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share
“When human beings are faced with chaotic circumstances, our impulse is to stay safe by doing what we’ve always done before. To change our… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share Image
“Whether you know it or not, your desire to write comes from the urge to not just be “creative,” it’s a need (one every… — Shawn Coyne Copy Share Image
