Post by MenelaosGkikas on May 27, 2021 12:40:58 GMT
Dear folks, for there is pressure in fast writing, I've been engaged in reading the book of Kehlmann "Measuring the World" with Humboldt & Gauss. But it seems I should think holistic in terms of my collaborations and take advantage of past help in the future...! I have been discussing possible collaboration for my novella outline with my writing consultant Laurie Lamson and right now, influenced by Gianni Rodari (the method salad of fairytales), before rights etc, the only thing I can say is that I take advantage of the fairytale of Cinderella! Snow White for When Magic Truly Happens, Cinderella for my next book, where could these stories lead my creativity? In When Magic Truly Happens there's primitive transformation from my part in terms of making it work as a drama, in the movies in other words...! I am planning to do exactly the same, even better this time, with my new fairytale fantasy outline, deciding to focus with Laurie only in the research, planning, outline and concepts part now that the screenplay coverage of Wescreenplay is also a choice! Even if a story is not initially made for the movies, there can be plenty of creative transformation to make it work and transformations should be my focus right now in general. But let's just view facts analytically:
Leading figures in screenwriting in Hollywood such as Blake Snyder, John Truby, Robert McKee, prove with their own examples diversity matters. So do money and movies! Their expertise spans not only in screenplays, but stories, novels, playwrights, etc. But these are instructors and school businesses claiming top distinctions for their students and themselves in the movie industry. It will be an advantage for me to learn how to transform both my current fairytale (When Magic Truly Happens) and my forthcoming novella for the cinema...! Let me now explain what this means with details. Stories, novellas and novels sometimes enjoy successes such as movie adaptations. But these are not success stories that can occur without planning and vision. When a writer writes a story, to work as a drama means that the actions, scopes and objectives of each character are all aligned onto a spine line (exactly like a fishbone) where the head of this fishbone leads to the super-objective of each character (what he seeks above all) and the super-objective of the movie in total, if the dramatic fishbone is being applied onto the movie level. The story should be focused in 1 world, 1 time frame (specific or vague in fantasy writing), 1 star character and only 1 dramatic element being taught to the character as the morale of the script.
If such alignments do not exist (for example if the script deals with lots of different issues), the book can be excellent as a story but it might not work as a movie. But getting the entire material into the writer's hands, he/she realizes the way messages and dramatic elements evolve, that it's super easy to TRANSFORM the script based on many CHAINS of meanings (to make the fishbone work) and adapt it to work for the cinema...! First of all, you shall not confuse drama meaning made as a movie with when a writer writes drama such as Coelho where this is the genre, the thematic category of the script, the kind of word. Thinking of scripts in terms of getting working notes from specialized professionals is of major importance right now for me as I wouldn't like to be blocked with STATIC conceptions. Furthermore, is it necessary the way short stories, novellas and novels work to be highly specialized in exotic material such as learning all about specialized theater, literature and short movies? The answer is no! Being prone to specific material is wrong. A simple story can be strong and engaging enough that if being dramatized (and I am not talking here about writing it as a screenplay but still existing on the prose level), it can work for the cinema!
Conclusively, my creative work so far, meaning my romantic drama The Words of Emily Logan and my fairytale fantasy pocket book When Magic Truly Happens, have helped me clear up not only what I seek as a writer but how I should think of the future, as a writer. You can get to know my work if you simply navigate at the page I created in Independent Authors Network (IAN) and find out about my books already attached in this article with a simple click, here: bit.ly/39chSSQ
Have a great time folks!