“Writers often secretly confess that their biggest fear is that what they’re writing about is so common, so small, that no one will be interested. Ironically, that is exactly what people are interested in. Why? Because those common, everyday things like love, loyalty, and trust are things we all experience, and we’re always looking for new insights that might help us navigate our everyday lives in a new and fresh way.” [1]
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“As Samuel Johnson so aptly pointed out, “The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.” [2]
I’d love to hear your views on this.
Big questions for our own writing:
- How do we make new things familiar?
- How do we make familiar things new?
- Do we even need to? Or is familiarity fine and newness fine?
Share your views in the comments
[1] and [2] from Lisa Cron, Story Genius, p50
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