Creative Writing Intellectual Motivation: From Cosmic Telegrams to Perspective!

Hello folks, it seems I am in the middle of reorganizing my moves in terms of creative strategy. I am finally in the delightful position to say my second screenplay has been finished. Official standards not only in Hollywood but all over the screenwriting world, suggest that scripts with a movie format should be between 90-120 big pages. My script is 108! The fast pace with which I wrote, gave me a rhythm and an argumentation on the script I did not achieve with Emily Logan. First of all, it's a screenplay portraying businesses and the entertainment industry. Those of you that have seen the movie of Zuckerberg by Aaron Sorkin, entitled The Social Network, can understand what rhythm is all about. Nevertheless I decided in the past to engage in book making and be self-published. This also means getting criticism and multiple evaluations on what I have done. But let's just take things analytically.

 

When Mario Puzo wrote the Godfather being introduced to Coppola, it was a bestseller. But when Coppola read the book he created a dossier with several hundreds of pages with what he liked, what he didn't like and what he didn't understand. The same happened with Myla Goldberg when she wrote Beeseason which was brought to the big screen with Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche. Someone who is not a writer and a spectator of the movie, just mentions the shift from one art to the other can't be identical. But writers and especially me who have both read the book and seen the movie, know there has been a lot of shrinkage, changes in the concept and deletion of lots of sophisticated descriptions. No matter how good you are, or an intellectual as the title of this article suggests, if you're interested in the big screen or just to evaluate your work, dogma is not a wise consultant. This means that all writers should shift from black or white telegrams on their work, to finding perspective and analytical thinking...

 

Which reminds me of the reality of my professors in Jacob Krueger Studio in NY, a screenwriting school, where since my creative writing education started in 2016 I was motivated to rationalize my material partly described by my professors as hyper intellectual. Dogma, is the issue here. Nevertheless, advices and evaluations by professionals that can be said to be authorities in books and entertainment are not free and be attracted by businesses with top level luxury brands at their websites' logo or down their page is a tricky nature. Right now I am so happy I have found again old folks from Jacob Krueger Studio in the internet, entitled as a Jacob Krueger Studio Writers Collective group in Facebook. A group which motivates me to create, share my work and my accomplishments. At the end of the day, I have already come up with a third script, in terms of my previous published work. This means I should not rush but rather play with my screenplay and find out more of what I can do with it. Have a great time all of you!