Sometimes you have to literally cut a scene

While working on revisions for my play The Supreme Leader I came upon a problem that I think is fairly common amongst my fellow writers: The scene has a lot of expository beats in need of streamlining.  This scene in particular sets the entire story in motion so I had to be careful not to remove any essential information.  Here’s

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Solving complex problems by making toast

Today I stumbled upon a nice TED talk about complex problem solving.  The presenter, Tom Wujec asks “Got a wicked problem?  First, tell me how you make toast.”  As a full time web developer, I’m constantly breaking down complex problems into simpler more manageable tasks, and think there’s definitely a connection between this process and

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