Perfect people are boring. Perfect people are obnoxious because they're better than us. Perfect people are, above all, too good to be true. - Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
S7E1 – The Mary Sue
Category: Writing Roots
S6E9 – Writing Plot Twists
It was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, “tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,” but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson. - Drew Goddard
S6E8 – The Use of Three
If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. - Laurence J. Peter
S6 Bonus Episode – What Makes a Good Villain
If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they’ve all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions. Every villain is a hero in his own mind. - Tom Hiddleston
S6E7 – Writing Humor
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. - Joss Whedon
S6E6 – Writing Stories Which Aren't Good vs. Evil
I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one - Jon M. Chu
S6E5 – Character Voice and Point of View
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. - John Green
