📚Agents receive thousands of submissions but accept only a few writers per year.
🎥Storytelling is more about the audience than the characters or plot.
📝Writing cannot be taught, but understanding human behavior is crucial.
💔🤝👥Adultery and the Holy Trinity: the writer, characters, and audience.
🎭🎟🎞The power of pity, fear, and catharsis in the three-act structure.
How many writers do agents accept each year?
—Agents accept only a few writers every year, usually less than 6 out of thousands of submissions.
What is the key to effective storytelling?
—Effective storytelling is more about understanding the audience than focusing on the characters or plot.
Can writing be taught?
—Writing itself cannot be taught, but understanding human behavior is crucial for effective storytelling.
What is the Holy Trinity in storytelling?
—The Holy Trinity in storytelling refers to the writer, characters, and audience, with the audience being the most important.
What is the significance of pity, fear, and catharsis?
—Pity, fear, and catharsis are powerful emotional experiences that can engage and captivate audiences in the three-act structure.
00:12Agents receive thousands of submissions but accept only a few writers per year.
01:19Storytelling is more about the audience than the characters or plot.
03:22Writing cannot be taught, but understanding human behavior is crucial.
03:29Adultery and the Holy Trinity: the writer, characters, and audience.
07:22The power of pity, fear, and catharsis in the three-act structure.
