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Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?

Writing Excuses

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How to Be a Better Writer

If you're going to be a writer, try different things. Take Goldilocks and the Three Bears and change one element about it. Find a transcript and put a setting around it. Try writing the same scene once as a science fiction and once as a fantasy. You just need to put in work. We'll show you step-by-step how professional writers approach building story out of disparate random elements.

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