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Nine Ways Legendary Writers Achieved Mastery

Nine Ways Legendary Writers Achieved Mastery

by Dan Jeffries | Mar 2, 2016 | Books, Writing, Enlightenment, How-Tos, Psychology | 1 comment

This is an early excerpt from my forthcoming book on writing: The Fire of Creation I recently re-read the amazing book “Daily Rituals: How Artists Work” and it got me thinking about what master writers do differently than everyone else. What does it take...
How I Predicted the Breaking Bad Ending

How I Predicted the Breaking Bad Ending

by Dan Jeffries | Oct 1, 2013 | Art, Books, Drugs, Uncategorized, Writing, Education, Enlightenment, How-Tos, News, Psychology, Reviews, Satori, TV | 0 comments

Sometimes being a writer can ruin stories for you because you can see endings coming a mile away. Unfortunately, I sometimes forget this is not the case for my friends and I totally killed the Breaking Bad ending for a few folks by predicting every beat. Some people...
The Worst Mistake You Can Make as a Storyteller

The Worst Mistake You Can Make as a Storyteller

by Dan Jeffries | Mar 24, 2013 | Art, Writing, How-Tos | 0 comments

One mistake will kill a story faster than any other: not following through. Anything that goes into your story has to come to a satisfying conclusion. It’s here that most authors fail, whether they’re just starting out or they are multi-book veterans. This...
Unf*cking Your Health and Your Life

Unf*cking Your Health and Your Life

by Dan Jeffries | Mar 10, 2013 | Art, Drugs, Science, Writing, Education, Enlightenment, How-Tos, Psychology | 1 comment

One day I woke up and I was sick of being sick.  And that one moment changed everything. Some of what I am going to tell you here will be like telling the ancient people that the world was actually round and not flat.  Just come along for a little while and listen. ...
The Most Important Character Development Technique You’ll Ever Learn

The Most Important Character Development Technique You’ll Ever Learn

by Dan Jeffries | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing, How-Tos | 1 comment

I’ve loved John Truby’s “Anatomy of a Story” ever since I first read it.  It’s filled with insights I’ve never seen in about a 100 other books on the subject.  However, I’ve come to realize that one of the most important...

John Cleese and the 5 Steps to Creativity

by Dan Jeffries | Jan 3, 2013 | Art, Uncategorized, Enlightenment, How-Tos, Psychology | 2 comments

One of the writers in my long term writing group sent out this video of John Cleese on the 5 Steps to getting into a head space where creativity can flourish. I liked it so much that I dug up a longer version of it for you. The whole lecture was 36 minutes and there...
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