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Better Than Talent or 10,000 Hours Is Reverse Engineering | Ron Friedman

The Kevin Miller Podcast

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The Twilight Copy Cats Didn't Work

A great story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. If you find somebody else's formula and you just try to reproduce it, chances are your ininnate strength will be a little different than that other person. The second reason is that audience expectations shift with time. Once people know the formula, they're gong to expect it. It's not going to work. So the key is to find a way to change it up just enough.

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