Thunder Road

Journalists are trained to get the story first or at least gather facts that are exclusive to your report. As an author, you should be striving for a different sort of exclusivity.

Caught Pixar’s Up with the kids on Fathers’ Day. Liked it better than Wall-E and Cars but nowhere near as much as The Incredibles or Monsters Inc.

The biggest story in the world today is the inauguration of the new American president.

Screenwriter Robert McKee says story is how humans attempt to “make sense out of the anarchy of existence”.