How to Filter and Capture Your Thought Worms

The genesis of every bestselling novel

David Majister
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readMar 1, 2021

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Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Flickr / CC-2.0

Thought worms are the genesis of every successful award-winning short story, bestselling novel, and viral article. Every billion-dollar box office movie — from Titanic to Avengers to Star Wars — began as a thought worm.

You have 6,200 thought worms every day. Over two million every year. Each…

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