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
