Post by MenelaosGkikas on Apr 13, 2022 12:16:35 GMT
Republished from my Facebook Page, Maker's Dust February 22 2022
Hello folks, creatives and all social networkers! As an artist, web creator as well as science student, time, is omnipresent in many aspects of our lives. Today I would like to discuss its extensions and its consequences in developing characters and literature. Let’s begin by saying the impact of it is different to different individuals in terms of their entire background. For example, a failure that will lead us to creating consecutive problems and offer solutions may take place in one week for some people or some others may argue that these changes can’t happen from one day to the next. To put it simply, overnight changes can’t always address everyone. In creative writing there are concrete tools that will make us familiar with the power of time, how it can alter decision making and its different impactful meter for different people. We talk about linear time and circular time, meaning narration that occurs on a straight line and narration that makes circles. We talk about recursive narration and precursive narration, in terms of the before and after of it. We also say that the twin of space is time, in terms of the integrated ‘spacetime’, but sometimes writers fail to acknowledge it’s their precursive thoughts that made them seek those paths, in another time frame handling positive or negative events in different spaces goes in parallel with the blink of an eye which is the price of experience and the price of getting what you want… All these different tools in writing that make us understand narrations from a time perspective, make writers say that actions, decision making, good or bad events do not exist on a point but they have an impact on the entire arrow of time, past and future. Nevertheless, we have to distinguish experiential thoughts from art and science, where with the term science I refer to social sciences that study the human condition.
A character now has that weakness or a character has no flaw at all, like Joel in my script and that is independent from his mother’s and girlfriend’s opinion in terms of how stubborn or one dimensional he is. He wants to change. What does he do? He changes his mindset through friendly discussions in Christmas parties… Is this negative? Judgement, no. Spiritual and meditative solutions are the best start from people who acknowledge super-productivity can’t function properly and it’s a matter of maturity to accept an opinion from his friends. But now we come to the fact that he has to fight, work and adapt as by being always the best didn’t make him face struggles and obstacles to get what he wants. First of all, can this happen during a random Christmas period? Within 20 days? Or is it something deeper, more fundamental, it requires hard work, so now that we come again to the denominator of time, such changes won’t happen from one day to the next? If the character had been more complex chances should be improved. As you can guess I refer to movies portraying ‘character journeys’. One of the best examples for those of you who have seen the movie are The Thorn Birds with Meggie and Ralph at Drogheda and here’s where the exemplification is mistaken. The fact that with such divine “examples” it took a lifetime to develop other criteria. This makes us compare goals in terms of the appropriate time frame to achieve them, the fact that nothing is a gift and the fact that a character like Joel can’t wake up one day by luck and say I got famous, models and mindsets have been developed long time before it. Every tiny detail of the above makes us understand the grid of creating structural changes in our script by keeping in mind time and the fact that these structural changes constitute the building blocks of what to add, what to subtract from a script and how to shape it, structurally, scenic and narratively! When it comes to character’s decisions it all comes down to building blocks in a script. Have a great time folks!
Hello folks, creatives and all social networkers! As an artist, web creator as well as science student, time, is omnipresent in many aspects of our lives. Today I would like to discuss its extensions and its consequences in developing characters and literature. Let’s begin by saying the impact of it is different to different individuals in terms of their entire background. For example, a failure that will lead us to creating consecutive problems and offer solutions may take place in one week for some people or some others may argue that these changes can’t happen from one day to the next. To put it simply, overnight changes can’t always address everyone. In creative writing there are concrete tools that will make us familiar with the power of time, how it can alter decision making and its different impactful meter for different people. We talk about linear time and circular time, meaning narration that occurs on a straight line and narration that makes circles. We talk about recursive narration and precursive narration, in terms of the before and after of it. We also say that the twin of space is time, in terms of the integrated ‘spacetime’, but sometimes writers fail to acknowledge it’s their precursive thoughts that made them seek those paths, in another time frame handling positive or negative events in different spaces goes in parallel with the blink of an eye which is the price of experience and the price of getting what you want… All these different tools in writing that make us understand narrations from a time perspective, make writers say that actions, decision making, good or bad events do not exist on a point but they have an impact on the entire arrow of time, past and future. Nevertheless, we have to distinguish experiential thoughts from art and science, where with the term science I refer to social sciences that study the human condition.
A character now has that weakness or a character has no flaw at all, like Joel in my script and that is independent from his mother’s and girlfriend’s opinion in terms of how stubborn or one dimensional he is. He wants to change. What does he do? He changes his mindset through friendly discussions in Christmas parties… Is this negative? Judgement, no. Spiritual and meditative solutions are the best start from people who acknowledge super-productivity can’t function properly and it’s a matter of maturity to accept an opinion from his friends. But now we come to the fact that he has to fight, work and adapt as by being always the best didn’t make him face struggles and obstacles to get what he wants. First of all, can this happen during a random Christmas period? Within 20 days? Or is it something deeper, more fundamental, it requires hard work, so now that we come again to the denominator of time, such changes won’t happen from one day to the next? If the character had been more complex chances should be improved. As you can guess I refer to movies portraying ‘character journeys’. One of the best examples for those of you who have seen the movie are The Thorn Birds with Meggie and Ralph at Drogheda and here’s where the exemplification is mistaken. The fact that with such divine “examples” it took a lifetime to develop other criteria. This makes us compare goals in terms of the appropriate time frame to achieve them, the fact that nothing is a gift and the fact that a character like Joel can’t wake up one day by luck and say I got famous, models and mindsets have been developed long time before it. Every tiny detail of the above makes us understand the grid of creating structural changes in our script by keeping in mind time and the fact that these structural changes constitute the building blocks of what to add, what to subtract from a script and how to shape it, structurally, scenic and narratively! When it comes to character’s decisions it all comes down to building blocks in a script. Have a great time folks!