Friday, April 27, 2018

Shattering Expectations while Innovating (part 5)


In my opinion, huge twists have a lot of potential for losing your audience. Once in a while, someone can manage to pull off a mind-shattering twist and have it work. The movie, “The Sixth Sense” is a great example of something unexpected, but in my opinion, the director's work after that movie never recaptured the same effect—it felt like he kept trying too hard to have a big twist in all of his subsequent movies. My point is that we can try too hard to be original. As you write and develop your ideas, don't abandon your work too quickly because you feel it lacks originality or that amazing shocking moment that some stories have. Go back over it and cut away what doesn't belong, rewrite things with variations, and be ready to develop your work over and over again until you feel like you have something that flows together—something where all the pieces fit. Seek feedback from friends, family, and people who don't know you well, and learn from all of them. Being innovative in creative design isn't easy, but there's no reason to make it even harder by expecting a groundbreaking, totally original concept to fall into your lap. If you're waiting for that to happen, beware: writer's block will have you.

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