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Advice on good storytelling from Pixar

We loved this post about good storytelling from the geniuses at Pixar. Here are a few of our favorites, but check out the full list of 22 in the link below.

#7: Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

#10: Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you've got to recognize it before you can use it.

June 13, 2012 | Whitney Scharer

Craft Advice

Shop at Amazon, Put a Bookstore Out of Business?

There's been lots of chatter about Amazon's new marketing ploy: For one day last weekend, they encouraged customers to go into brick-and-mortar stores and use Amazon's price-checking app to see if they could get products for less on Amazon, and then offered them $5 credits on Amazon purchases.

December 13, 2011 | Whitney Scharer

Writers Welcome

It's the first day of the Daily. Welcome.

We have very modest goals for this blog: to be the World's Best Writing Blog (or WBWB, for short). What does that entail, or WWWBWBD (What Would The World's Best Writing Blog Do)? We think we have a pretty good idea.