Top Highlights

• given the situation Hazel is in, what would she do? How would she try to solve the problem? Which really means: what would your audience do?
• In a story, the protagonist solves the problem only by overcoming obstacles that even she isn’t really sure she’s up to.
• Yeah, none of the above. Here’s the secret: the answer always lies in your story’s backyard
• “One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.”
• the rule of threes. Why is it so powerful? Because as we know, the brain is programmed to search for patterns, and the smallest possible pattern is…three.