I have been on an unofficial blog hiatus-ish in July. I didn't mean to be, but the fact that I had more days with visitors this month than days without kind of just made it happen on its own. (And was totally worth it, BTW.)
I will return in full-swing in August, but for today, let me leave you with an excerpt from Donald Miller's new book "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years," which comes out in September. The full chapter is available here, and I really hope you will read it.
To entice you, a sneak peak...
Robert McKee put down his coffee cup and leaned onto the podium. He put his hand on his forehead and wiped back his gray hair. He said, “You have to go there. You have to take your character to the place where he just can’t take it anymore.” He looked at us with a tenderness we hadn’t seen in him before. “You’ve been there, haven’t you? You’ve been out on the ledge...the dream is over now; nothing good can come from this.”
He got louder. “Writing a story isn’t about making your peaceful fantasies come true. The whole point of the story is the character arc. You didn’t think joy could change a person, did you? Joy is what you feel when the conflict is over. But it’s conflict that changes a person.”
His voice was like thunder now. “You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That’s the only way we change.”
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can't wait for your full on return!
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