Aha moment12/30/2023 If you liked this episode of WritersLife Wednesday, please share it with a writer friend! Also be sure to subscribe to my channel to get new videos every Wednesday all about writing, publishing, and making your author dreams come true. Let’s talk aha moments! What realization is YOUR character going to have? How are you going to bring their character arc full circle and show the reader how they have transformed as a result of their journey? (Not gonna lie, this might be my favorite video I’ve ever made.) Check it out: In today’s video we’re exploring that question… and why the aha moment is so crucial to your story (and to your characters!) Plus we case study some of my favorite stories and ask ourselves prompts from the 3 act story structure… dissecting what makes these aha moments so emotional and memorable. If you could give that person an aha moment, what would it be? There is someone out there right now who is just like your protagonist. Because your readers HAVE stopped to listen. If the whole world stopped to listen, what would you say? That’s an important question to ask yourself when you’re writing this part of a story. The aha moment is my favorite story beat because it’s the moment that matters to YOU, the writer. This will allow you to configure a portal and add the Ideas tab at the top of the screen when you are viewing that product.What’s the most important part of a story? Your character’s “aha” moment: the transformative realization that brings their character arc full circle and delivers a powerful message to your audience. Existing Aha! customers can get started immediately by going to Account settings and selecting Idea settings and portal. You can also easily export from this screen as well. This makes it easy to look at all of the ideas across products or just for one product and to filter based on any custom fields that you have added. Promote ideas to features The Idea list view allows you to slice and dice your ideas and filter the columns and fields. value scorecard or create your own to plot different metrics against each other. This is a simple, yet powerful way to see how ideas relate to one another and to determine which ones should be prioritized as features for development. Idea value visualization You can use an Aha! Scorecard to assess the priority of an idea based on impact and effort. You can then enhance the idea by adding additional information like tags and move the idea through your review process using pre-defined status and workflow. You will also be notified via email as ideas are submitted.Ĭapture the details about an idea View what information was submitted with an idea including submitter, title, description, custom fields, and any attachments. Easily track the status of ideas, the volume of ideas being submitted, and your top contributors. Overview dashboard The dashboard gives you a complete view of all ideas as they are submitted in real-time. ![]() Set up one portal per product if you want. Publish the URL as desired and capture ideas from customers, employees, and other stakeholders. The new capabilities include:Ī custom-branded portal Publish a custom-branded and configured portal with the fields that you want completed. We have enhanced Aha! to allow you to collect, curate, and promote ideas into features to ensure that key feedback and requests are seamlessly integrated into your product planning and development processes. They go into a standalone system that is connected to nothing They typically fall flat and die a quiet death because they are never vetted for a number of reasons that might sound familiar. It takes real effort to develop an idea to determine it’s value and prioritization. Most ideas are shared in hallway conversations, via email, or once a year as part of “Innovation day.” And let’s be honest - they typically stink. So, every organization wants better ideas, but it’s tough to actually capture them in a manageable way. Better ideas lead to innovation and innovation leads to market leadership. Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas. ![]() You can finally embed ideation directly into your product management and roadmapping process and be happy. Capture them all in one place, visualize their priority, and promote the ones that matter to features. You can finally empower customers, employees, and other stakeholders to submit ideas (via a custom branded portal) that you can actually act on. We just introduced the new new way to ideate. Sure, it’s cool to talk about crowd-sourcing ideas in a social world - but the reality is that the noise of every “greatest new idea” beats you down so you miss the one that actually matters. We have written about ideas in the past and commented that many of us have “idea fatigue.” We figured it was time to actually do something about it.
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