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    3. Write the book you want to read. Quick story: Jurassic Park came out on my 10th birthday. I loved it. I was kind of obsessed with it. I mean, what 10-year-old wasn’t obsessed with that movie? The minute I left my little small-town theater, I was dying for a sequel. I sat down the next day at our old green-screen PC and typed out a sequel. In my treatment, the son of the game warden eaten by velociraptors goes back to the island with the granddaughter of the guy who built the park. See, one wants to destroy the rest of the park, the other wants to save it. Of course, they fall in love and adventures ensue. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was writing what we now call fan fiction—fictional stories based on characters that already exist. 10-year-old me saved the story to the hard drive. Then, a few years later, Jurassic Park 2 came out. And it sucked. The sequel *always* sucks compared to the sequel in our heads. (via “How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)” by Austin Kleon)

    3. Write the book you want to read.

    Quick story:
    Jurassic Park came out on my 10th birthday. I loved it. I was kind of obsessed with it. I mean, what 10-year-old wasn’t obsessed with that movie? The minute I left my little small-town theater, I was dying for a sequel. I sat down the next day at our old green-screen PC and typed out a sequel.

    In my treatment, the son of the game warden eaten by velociraptors goes back to the island with the granddaughter of the guy who built the park. See, one wants to destroy the rest of the park, the other wants to save it. Of course, they fall in love and adventures ensue.

    I didn’t know it at the time, but I was writing what we now call fan fiction—fictional stories based on characters that already exist. 10-year-old me saved the story to the hard drive. Then, a few years later, Jurassic Park 2 came out.

    And it sucked.

    The sequel *always* sucks compared to the sequel in our heads.

    (via “How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)” by Austin Kleon)

     
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