All Hope Is (Not) Lost

All Hope Is (Not) Lost

In a classic 3-act story structure, there’s a turning point at the end of the second act called “All Hope Is Lost”.

If world history was a story with us as characters, the All Hope Is Lost moment would be now.

At least that’s what I was thinking when I watched a video from the Stockholm Impact Week where Daniel Schmachtenberger explains the Metacrisis.

If our story is going to have a happy ending, the protagonist (that’s us) is going to have to do something difficult and heroic. Fortunately, I think there’s at least a chance that we’ll have help from an unlikely source. And no, I don’t mean Han Solo.

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Writers Block

Writers Block

According to the Wikipedia article on Writer’s Block, Herman Melville stopped writing novels a few years after writing Moby Dick, due to writer’s block.

Who knows? Perhaps without that, the world might have seen a sequel named “Gilbert Gator”, in which an eccentric Captain Featherboot leads a shipful of befuddled mariners in the swampy bayous of Louisiana in pursuit of a toothless, albino alligator named Gilbert, believed by some to be the last of the dinosaurs.

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