John Dufresne

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Author John Dufresne gives out some helpful and important techniques for crafting characters and storylines in this Tedx Video.

The followings are some of the highlights that I particularly liked:

• Everything that you do not want to happen to yourself, your family and friends should happen to your characters.
• The writer is the one who is not stopped or even faced by failure.
• You write about what you don’t understand. What you don’t know is more important that what you know.
• Life is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.
• The plot to every story is this: there is a central character who wants something intensely and reaches out for it. At the end, the person wins or losses.