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In Making Your Intentions, Goals, Dreams And Purpose More Romantic

Alden Tan
3 min readSep 4, 2018

It becomes more meaningful.

I spent an hour last night watching this video by Charlie Kaufman, acclaimed screenwriter who has been nominated for Academy Awards behind his screenplays such as Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York.

As the title states, it’s about writing advice.

But it’s nothing cliched or generic that borders on being another typical “how to” tutorial on writing or another set of tips and tricks.

Charlie gets personal and intimate to why he writes and why he thinks writing is powerful.

He talks about how we have our own special story to tell.

He talks about how good writing makes people feel less lonely.

He talks about how you should write to give back something to the world.

A screenplay is an exploration. It’s about the thing you don’t know. It’s a step into the abyss. It necessarily starts somewhere, anywhere; there is a starting point but the rest

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