738: The Story Slope

One of the things I've added to my Origin Story Course is this concept of your story as a slope. Ideally, it should look like this:  But in reality, it often starts by looking like this:  Because parts of our story are irrelevant, unnecessary, dull or complicated.  This is why we edit, and as [[Ernest Hemingway]] famously said, "The first draft of anything is shit”. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/738:-The-Story-Slope