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Learn how to come up with truly original ideas that can help a writer ascend to the highest circles of avant-garde artistic achievement.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro to Being Original
00:57 Originality is actually kind of hard
01:50 Originality can backfire
02:54 Plot and genre can strangle new ideas
04:15 Cultivating ideas for a story
06:04 Ideas are cheap
07:52 No one owns ideas
09:11 Fiction is big enough for many interpretations no matter how slight
09:49 Writers don't have to be original at all if they don't want to
10:03 Don't lie either, Jeez
10:23 All storytelling is built upon what came before
10:46 It's all been done, sorry
11:04 Stop. Worrying. About. Being. Original!
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15:33- Outro

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