“I call it a brain trust because that's what Pixar calls it. All of those amazing movies, Pixar turns out it's because they have a group of people, writers and filmmakers that get together on a periodic basis and talk over where people are in their writing process.”

Thomas Dean Donnelly · The Self Publishing Show · SPS-471: Finish Your Book, Superdraft with T.D. Donnelly

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create a "brain trust" of writers who meet periodically to give each other feedback, similar to Pixar's process

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