I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about a concept. So last year I celebrated my 20th anniversary as head designer.

And I realized that I spent a lot of time talking about when I first became head designer, I talked a lot about how I wanted to structure blocks better.

I wanted to make it something to have more flow to them, be more planned, and not sort of box ourselves in the corners as we had been.

But that is not the only thing I've done is head designer.

So today I'm going to talk about a different concept, in a concept

known as the emotional center. So this is something else. And I'll talk that I do believe,

as you'll see today, that this is something that I cared about all along, but I focus a little more

at some point, and we'll talk about that. Okay, so before I get into sort of magic, let me talk a little more at some point and we'll talk about that.

Okay, so before I get into sort of magic, let me talk a little bit.

The concept of an emotional center is one that I borrowed from writing.

You'll notice there's a lot of themes in my work of taking things I learned in another field and applying them to magic design.

For example, the psychic graphics I took from my study of advertising when I was in school.

So, let me explain in writing what an emotional center is.

Okay, so let's say I'm writing a scene where a man and woman are arguing over breakfast.

They're having breakfast and they're arguing about the breakfast.

Maybe he made the eggs wrong or something.

So we'll use that example.

Let's say the fight is all about how he made scrambled eggs and she prefers over easy.

What the emotional center means is the people in my scene that I'm writing are fighting

over eggs, but they're not really fighting over eggs. The idea of an emotional center is

you, the writer, have to understand

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