1. Collecting = ideas/stories
Ideas and stories are everywhere. Your job as the writer is to be observant. To notice. To watch. To see. To take note. To make notes. To listen. Assumptions are the writer’s worst enemy. Assumptions make you think you already know the story, you’ve already heard the idea. NEVER ASSUME.

My great-grandmother used to say, at 102 years old: “You never can know what another… Continue reading