Well, hello there, it's Morgan Harper-Nichols here. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space

where I turn the lens on various topics and subjects in hopes to learn something new or see something in a new way.

Today's episode is called Three Creative Ways to See the Good in Your Own Story. Thank you for listening. It is no secret that we as human

beings, we gravitate toward stories, whether it's the stories that people share with us or the stories

we read online or the books or movies that we are entertained by. Stories have a way of drawing us in.

However, when it comes to our own stories, sometimes we're drawn in by the things that we don't like,

by the chapters that we wish we could change, by the ways that we've

learned to define ourselves based on different things that have happened in the past or how

we've been perceived. So if you've ever been one to love a good story, however at the same time, not really finding it so easy to see the good

in your own story. These three creative ways to see the good in your own story are for you.

The first way is to try to see your story in a different genre than you've always seen it in.

Maybe you've seen your story as a drama, but maybe not one of the good ones.

Maybe one of those that kind of goes on for an extra 35 minutes or even an hour longer than it probably should have.

And you're wondering when things are going to wrap up.

You're wondering how many slow scenes to wrap up. You're wondering

how many slow scenes do we need to get to the point? Maybe that's how you've seen your story.

However, there are more ways to direct a film. There are more genres out there. There's a YouTube

channel out there that I can't remember the name of, where they take

popular films and they edit them and cut the trailers and cut different scenes from the movies

in different ways so that the movie will look like it's in a different genre. So they'll take

a comedy and then edit it as a drama. And quite a few of these

videos have well over a million views. And I think perhaps the reason why it's interesting is

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