Even though I’ve studied story structure enough to teach workshops and offer beat sheets, I still love learning new perspectives. I still read blog posts, check out Twitter threads, and pick up books about beats, plots, and story structure, hoping to take away at least one new thing.
Once we’ve written more than one story, we often learn a “writer truth”:
The processes and techniques that worked on our last story might not work on our next one.
So I figure I should fill my brain with all the options. I want to have more choices in my toolbox should my usual processes for writing and editing a story fail. The more tools at our fingertips, the better our chances of finding something that will work.
maliaann
Writing for the Whole Darn Universe 