Daniel Honey

    Main Points • Video games can tell great stories with some crossover techniques for writing. • Video games excel in immersion; accountability; giving small rewards; tutorials; and quick starts into action. • Emphasize what books can do that video games (and other mediums) can’t, such as taking time; using additional senses including touch, taste, and smell; interior dialogue; and having independent characters who each have their own character arcs. Intro I love playing video games. It’s one of…

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Main Points • Play to your strengths. • Begin with a secondary conflict. • Show the character being proactive. • Prologues can help. • Above all, DO NOT BE BORING. Intro The beginning of a book is the most important part of a book. If the beginning is boring, people aren’t going to read it. They’ll never make it to the really cool and awesome stuff you wrote later on. Also, you typically submit the first few pages or chapters…

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  Main Points • The War of Art is a masterpiece everyone should read. Buy it! • We all have to overcome ‘resistance,’ the tendency to resist doing our life’s work. • We overcome resistance by becoming a pro, treating our art as if it were a professional career. • We can rely on Muses for inspiration and help, whether that’s something divine or something innate. Introduction The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative…

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