Live Sessions
Obviously, these are not included in Ideaverse for Obsidian, but you can see how I created outlines for each session.
- 2023-07-27 - UCLA - SYWE - Session 1
- 2023-08-03 - UCLA - SYWE - Session 2
- 2023-08-10 - UCLA - SYWE - Session 3
- 2023-08-17 - UCLA - SYWE - Session 4
- 2023-08-24 - UCLA - SYWE - Session 5
- 2023-08-31 - UCLA - SYWE - Session 6
Actual Descriptions
Logline
Harness the promise of your ideas by learning to wrangle them into linked digital notes, giving you a series of starting points for new projects.
What you can learn
- Create a digital system that turns your many ideas into compelling and completed stories
- Harness the power of linked digital notes to connect various ideas and give you a launchpad for new projects
- Learn to manage multiple ideas simultaneously and make better progress toward your writing goals
- Enhance your creative output once you grasp how to link various ideas into a powerful story matrix
About this course
It doesn’t matter if you have the best ideas if you can’t develop them into anything. In this course, you will create a digital system that supports and powers your writing efforts—so you can turn your many ideas into compelling and completed stories. You will learn how to use linked digital notes to never start from a blank page again, to overcome Writer’s Block, and to stay in flow to get more of your best writing done more often. As you develop your digital writing system throughout this course, you will experience first-hand how linking ideas digitally gets you generating more sparks in your work than ever before. By the end of this course, you should be able to use linked digital notes to effectively manage multiple ideas simultaneously and reliably make progress in your writing efforts—leading to some of your most inspired and valuable creative output.
Instructor Bio
Editors Guild member whose credits include Better Call Saul, Coyote, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Others shows he’s worked on have premiered on HBO, Netflix, Paramount, CBS All Access, ABC, NBC, and Youtube. Nick also worked in HBO’s coveted Programming department, focusing on Barry, Veep, and Silicon Valley. Nick runs an international education company that teaches the invisible art of growing good ideas.
Instructor Statement
As a writer, you have a unique perspective and stories to share. If only it was as easy as clicking your heels to share them! So what gets in the way? It’s not a lack of ideas—we all have ideas. It’s having a reliable way to grow them into captivating stories.
I’m dedicated to helping you to build an “ideaverse”—your custom idea ecosystem—that will support & power your creative efforts.
The frameworks you will learn are based on linking your ideas together. They have a clear outcome: to unlock your ability to work with ideas in a way that is fast, flexible, fun, and future-proof.