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The big question that I'm asking today is, and it's so hard to pin down, as you can tell from the way I'm trying to devise my questions for you, because it's such a broad question, which is like, how do you make your work special?
Right?
Because nothing is 100% original.
It comes from years of exposure to other work.
If you're a songwriter, you've listened to a shit ton of music, and if you're an author, you've read a shit ton of books.
So it's very hard to tell you in a single 30 minute podcast episode how to be original.
There's nothing comprehensive we can cover here, but I thought maybe we could go through a couple of things that I think at least fit us or me.
And if you want to add to this, Joseph, too, just a couple of devices that I think through when I'm thinking about the standard formula of whether you say beginning, middle and end or whether you talk about who's the man who created the hero's journey, the circular.
The hero.
Joseph Campbell.
Yeah, there you go.
Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey.
Of that, whether or not, whatever you're using as your base formula, there are just certain things that I have found really helpful.
And I think maybe for y'all too.
I mean, the number one thing, and this is something that I've been doing for a long time in my own writing that I've always enjoyed.