Tip #6: Mix, Match, and Connect

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Transcript

The last idea I'd like us to discuss is how you can mix and match different pictures and find connections between them that will help you write your story. And it's interesting because human brains are wired to find patterns and find connections find meaning, even when there are no no obvious connections or no connections exist. So what I did here is I took some of these pictures, put them together, and tried to find some connections between them. Let's take a look. So let's see these three pictures. And actually what you can do if you have been writing your scenes, you can take what you have written and see if you can find connections between the the descriptions that you wrote for each of these pictures.

Or you can start by combining pictures and then finding connections. So here's what I what I did here. The first one remember this girl number Maybe she's looking for a long lost relative. And she's in a city first try asking for directions or trying to figure out where that relative is. And maybe she finds that relative in that mountain hut. Or maybe it's something different.

Maybe she's a famous writer looking for a peaceful place to write. And she's looking back to the day when she sat on the bench all alone. And she's thinking about what she learned about herself. And that her knowledge, her lesson of the day, maybe shaped the rest of her life. Right? So you can try to go with these ideas or something different.

See how you can figure out connections between these two pictures. Or you can take these three. What is the story about is it a story about the reunion many years apart, and if you look at the third picture, and the girls, the young woman's expression, she looks a lot like But disappointed. So maybe this reunion was disappointing in some way. And maybe that can lead you to a larger question about childhood memories. Are they accurate?

How does time change the events in our mind? And what is the future of this couple? Who are they? And we'll do one more. Remember the young woman taking pictures? Is there a story about the camera that she has?

That's possible. And look at pictures two and three. What are the similarities between this abandoned building and Washington DC? Why are both places important to this woman? Who is she? And who is she with?

All right.

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