STORYTELLING MADE SIMPLE
You’re waiting in the sun-blistering heat waiting to get on this one roller coaster ride that is supposed to be “the most, like, fun thing ever,” your best friend says.
You think to yourself, “Hey, I used to do this all the time as a kid, of course I can do this again.”
Consuming endless information is the current vice of all creatives.
There’s so much information out there and you think you need to keep learning and keep learning and keep learning. So you buy more books, read blogs, and watch YouTube videos.
What it takes to do what you love without feeling exhausted.
You get paid as a storyteller when you’ve been persistent and consistent.
You get paid when you’ve actually put yourself out there.
Over the years, countless people have e-mailed me to ask how they get started in the writing industry. I ask them what their portfolio looks like and how much content they’ve written online.
When I would be forced to be in a group edit (almost worse than a group project) throughout college, it was always a struggle.
These are basically when you sit down with other writing majors and all edit each other’s work in a small group.
The number one rule of any creative endeavor is that you will learn more from your failures than anything else.
This is where I’ve always struggled to help any creative with any advice because so much of it is just trial and error.
Writing The Stories