How I turn a story you tell out loud into a page

Finding the opening, the tension, and the cuts in a story you already know by heart, one step at a time.

For paid subscribers: the step-by-step method behind "You Have Told This Story a Hundred Times. Why Isn't It a Book?"

In that essay I said your spoken story is already a draft, and that three decisions turn it into a chapter: where it opens, where the tension sits, and what you leave out. This is how I make those decisions with my clients, step by step, …