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Proven method #2: Extra, extra, read all about it!

Proven method #2: Extra, extra, read all about it!

From the course: Develop Blockbuster Story Ideas That Sell

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Proven method #2: Extra, extra, read all about it!

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(compelling electronic music) - [Instructor] Welcome back. We're talking about proven methods for brainstorming high-concept ideas that sell. In the last lecture, we learned the larger than life method, and I provided two exercises for helping you mine your own life for ideas. In this lecture, we're going to step out of our own little world and into the great big world. If you thought your life had a lot of interesting stories, wait until you see what the rest of the world has to offer. This next method which I call Extra, extra, read all about it is by far my favorite of them all and I think the most effective. Maybe that's just because my most successful story idea to date came from this method. It's actually how and why I developed the method. Back in 2009, I was trying to sell a young adult sci-fi series and it was not going well. My brilliant idea had been shopped all over town twice by my agent and we couldn't get anyone to bite. I knew I wanted to dive into sci-For instance, as…

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