One idea I really liked in Amy Whitaker's book Art Thinking was a concept borrowed from Hollywood screenwriters—the "MDQ," or Major Dramatic Question. The MDQ is the engine that drives the plot of a narrative forward, broadening the stakes, extending the specific to the universal. Whitaker suggests that people can have their own MDQs—which she … Continue reading On the Major Dramatic Question and Richard Feynman’s 12 problems →