The Other Invisible!

It's funny how sometimes, because of my lack of self-discipline, my creativity ebbs and flows. I'm still working on the story for the game in my head, but now I have the added...pressure...project...something...from my screenplay class. Actually, it's not such a bad thing. I have to write a three play scene that has a beginning, middle, and end and either resolves at the end, or incites further action. I've gone for the scenes that incites further action. It's going to be constructed like a teaser at the beginning of a tv show. I have a week and a half. So far, no one in my mental "green room" has stepped forward to volunteer any help. Usually character are jumping at the chance to get their own scene. Maybe I haven't provided enough of a goal for any characters to be interested in joining in.

I have a week and a half.

My modus operandi is usually to kick around the project in my head till something happens. I'll listen for voices, generate possibilities, and, if I get really into the groove, I'll get a flash of action in my head (usually in the form of a vision of sorts) that will lead to a great scene.

What I'm most concerned with is making the dialogue, the action, and the scene something that is different than most television I see. I'm not going for shocking, just intriguing and smart. I made the mistake last night of saying how much I enjoy television that is intelligent and well-written. Now I have to live up to my own expectations, and work past the usual tv scene.

I think I need to sleep on it.

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• #2 Comment from knowwriter 
  1/10/07 1:37 PM | Permalink

  I find that doing something physical starts generating the ideas, cleaning house, a walk, playing basketball with the kids. It allows the subconcious to work away with out stressing over the situation.
  Nicolle
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• #1 Comment from willenawrites 
  1/9/07 9:51 PM | Permalink

  I love the way that you have tackled two issues here...the pressure we put on ourselves to be creative, and the way you have described the way characters jump up waving their arms and say "write me, write me."  Why do characters go hide in the closet when you need them most?  Lots of writers I know say they have a ritual that they go through when sitting down at their desks/computers...sharpening pencils, lighting candles...something that becomes a mental trigger.  I am trying to develop my own.  Would that work for you?
  
  Signed, a new adjunct instructor at West Central Tech.