'Be Curious And Never Assume'

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume."  – Alan Watt

Born on this date in 1965, Watt is a Canadian author, comedian, actor, lecturer, and screenwriter.  He is best known from his teaching at summer creative writing workshops at UCLA and lectures on writing across North America, speaking at such wide-ranging venues as the USC Business School and various maximum security prisons. 

 

 

Also a multi-award winner for his film "Interior Night," he has written a number of screenplays for both film and television.  In 2002 he founded the L.A. Writers' Lab, where he teaches writers how to write the first draft of their novel in three months, and then in 2011 he founded a publishing company The 90-Day Novel Press to help authors who write those books get their works published. 
 

"We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge," Watt said. "We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.”

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