Hacking Creativity: Mark's Resource Roundup

I think as writers we often underestimate the power of the mind to connect the dots. We forget our audience is smarter than we think. Indeed, sometimes smarter than us as they often arrive at conclusions before we reveal them. (I hate when that happens.) We often take up so much screenplay real estate explaining our story rather than expressing our story.

They say the most powerful form of persuasion is when you involve your audience in your story in such a way that they arrive at the subtext of your message on their own. If the reader/audience feels they’re being talked down to, you’ll only piss them off and risk losing their attention all together. Don’t feed your story to the audience, write in such a way that they feel your story.

Keep writing,

Mark

Resource Links:

Overcoming Writer's Block

Writer's Block: Causes, Symptoms & Cures

How to Beat Writer's Block

Parting Thought:

“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.’ And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.’” ― Maya Angelou