Midpoints are arguably the most important element within a storytelling structure, and yet so many writers overlook them. We get so focused on the epic qualities of an ending that we forget the epic qualities of a middle.
I used to feel pretty frustrated by all that waiting. But then I experienced life on the other side of the fence. It opened my eyes considerably. Generally speaking, a longer wait time is a good sign while a shorter wait time can be a bad one.
What we end up having here, my friend, is not a concern of someone else—phenomenologically or otherwise—using our ideas, but rather something harder to admit: The belief that we’re not good enough.
What I say now isn’t intended to be in a Glinda the Good Witch voice, but rather that grizzled old man at the back of the bar: Failure begets successes that otherwise never would’ve happened.
Workshops are inherently vulnerable spaces. The problem here is it can be a learning process to detangle one’s work from one’s self-worth.
