Fix a draft everyone says is fine and nobody is moved by
readers call your work 'solid,' nobody can say what's wrong, and you keep polishing sentences instead of finding the real problem.
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Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace · 2023
Treats 'fine' as the danger sign. The Braintrust, ugly babies, and Toy Story 2's rebuild show how a structural problem gets named out loud.
Twyla Tharp · 2003
Gives the diagnostic tool: state the spine in one sentence and test every scene against it, plus the box of raw material to go back to.
The prompt
My situation: [describe the piece, how far along it is, the feedback you've had, and what you've been doing to fix it]
Use Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace (2023) and The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp (2003) to help.
Recall any details from the whole book that help, including names, numbers, scenes, or cases that are not the most famous chapter titles.
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