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Content Can Produce More Content
You can use TV time as an opportunity to gain new writing ideas.
As I mentioned in the article, Life Is Content, you can use your everyday experiences to fill your writing catalog with content.
Nothing is off-limits as a writer.
You can explore every avenue and rabbit hole imaginable. It doesn’t matter if the show or movie is a comedy, fiction, historical, drama, crime, psychological, thriller, or mystery. Any and every show can offer you an idea that can be further developed.
The Walking Dead
I found the show quite is addicting (I definitely got lost for a while), but it’s also super dark, which is why I’m currently on a long-term sabbatical from it (however, I do believe I will come back to it).
When I was binging “The Walking Dead,” the writing ideas flooded in.
All the extra TV time wasn’t wasted because I forced myself to pause/turn off the tv to write and use whatever idea(s) came up for me in each episode.
Tapping Into Creative Sources As A Writer
Nightmare Alley
There were several financial lessons that one can learn from the movie Nightmare Alley. Hence, I wrote an article about the experience and was able to use the movie as a tax write-off since it was business-related.
More entrepreneurial hacks 🙂
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