From Blueprints To Global Engagement!

Hio folks, today I will try to clear up the uncertainty that comes with creativity and creative writing and try to put a stone for future inquiries. It’s true that having created global engagement in terms of bringing my projects to life there also comes evaluation, judgements and how tos in terms of being effective and reliable. For those of you that have read my previous comments in terms of how the writer gets chemistry with his characters, how these people face the consequences of their actions and how all that are being projected on a piece of paper function, there comes writer’s mentality. When we actually portray characters and characters’ profiles in a piece of art, e.g. the actor Joel, many things go beyond writing.

It’s not mere expertise of how to write a script. It’s how the writer’s brain works with performing arts. It’s his fantasies and his experiences with the characters. It’s how you set them up in front of you, like Kavafis says in Ithaca! It’s what you hope you will accomplish with an alter ego… Why should an artist be a God? Beginner’s mind with minimal education using photos and videos… Are all artists Gods? Of course not. Do I offer absolution (άφεση αμαρτιών)? Of course not, neither should a writer do. Does art offer absolution? No. Someone has to learn to blueprint characters they’re not the princes of the fairytale.

Especially on this last comment there comes the experience of the web. Stephen King in his book “On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft” explains in written word both the yeses and the noes in writing, but you have to see written both to have solid experience. That’s the writer’s primitive marketing experience in the internet. Furthermore, books sometimes touch aspects of our cosmotheory, it’s our brain on how should a few people act. Hence, well trained analysts and judges have the ability to know very well on what is the front, the showcase and the back, the behind of a writer’s work. If there’s bad philosophy, if there’s rage and anger, if exactly like Rose in Titanic, everything from the outside is being envisioned as a super-power and inside of you there’s plenty of boiling and screaming, they have the capacity to understand that…!

If how you portray an artist means you want to give an idealistic dimension to art thinking you belong there and nothing else matters, again, this can be diagnosed as well. Consequences matter, obstacles into someone’s pathway matter as well, absolution is only for the Messiah and God… But mainly, even if somebody’s mind works perfectly and knows what it means to write outside the sphere of a book, one of the most difficult practices meaning to show and not tell, means he may not know how to put all the above notions on paper. Because you don’t write to a book about absolution instead you have to show it, meaning we have to work with messages and subtext…

For those of you that would like to have a taste of my books, blueprints that made me seek help from human resources in Greece, UK, USA, Hollywood, the worldwide web, etc, to bring them to life, you can view my already attached in this article books at IAN, The Independent Authors Network. Here’s the link: bit.ly/39chSSQ Have a great time folks!

Writers & The Importance Of Ecumenism!

 

Hio folks, in terms of catching up with some religious details for those of you wondering about the article’s term, ecumenism is the movement towards worldwide Christian unity and ‘what is viewed’ as the universality of the Christian faith. But dictionaries and bibliography enrich this definition with wider viewpoints. Talking about the meaning of global, universal, ecumenical problems, global, ecumenical values, there comes the book of Charles Nicholl, ‘Flights of the mind’ talking about the most mysterious figure of Renaissance, the story of the unceasingly studious person hiding behind The Legend of The Ecumenical Man that is Leonardo Da Vinci. It’s true that although Renaissance has been denoted for revolutionary breakthroughs and achievements in many areas, as well as social and political turmoil, it is better known for its art streams and the contribution of great artists and scientists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, that inspired the term Homo Universalis! As a matter of fact, the invention of the internet can also be considered global and worldwide and it’s also recognized, today, that some machine learning techniques have also global impact. But what do the above have to do with writers and creative writing? Let me tell you a story! 

 

It all starts by Man’s quest for singularity, this everything is one problem that makes writing effective and ineffective as well. As writers have many times proved we are children of the universe, characterization is a better term for this problem. Characterization has to do with the authenticity and the uniqueness of man and his voice. Just pay a little detail to what Aaron Sorkin in his masterclass had described as dialogue. You take what someone has told you and you punch it into somebody’s face! What it means, if an advice has been given to an actor, a real one and you still write a script about actors, it’s more probable the advice would be suitable although it has to fit. Nevertheless, the argument is not as ‘fluffy’ when it is directed to different personas. Or maybe it is? Characters and stars in writing have been our avatars in parallel universes, a little bit of chemistry between the writer and his characters is important. But this is not the end of it. How long does this effect last? Here comes my point of being not singular, often coming with no personal cost even though oftentimes struggling for being multidimensional. This is where more severe measures have to be applied. “Et tu, Brutus?” 

 

Recently after coming to super-power, Julius Caesar was assassinated as a Roman dictator. Although sources suggest that the historic Caesar adapted the words of a Greek sentence actually saying: "You too, my son, will have a taste of power", of which Caesar only needed to invoke the opening words to foreshadow Brutus’ own violent death, in response to his assassination. What could it mean? When it deals with characters, writing and screenplays, the art of learning to say no to our characters’ superfluous desires is a must. Even worse, reject them. By this and that you may have come to the conclusion that this unexpected betrayal thing of Brutus, makes the writer learn to say yes and no and sometimes shape the script before being shaped otherwise. Shaping and transforming for better or worse is a leadership attribute. So, here is where everything starts to be put into place! Leadership and ecumenism can work alongside one another and bringing back to memory the writer’s art, that can be 100 years old even though his craft might still be a little baby, fearing what to say directly is a bad counselor. Even more, when it blocks the writer by getting things done and getting wild success through his/her writing. For those of you that would like to get a taste of my work, visit IAN, The Independent Authors Network. It portrays the books already being attached in this article. Here is the link: bit.ly/39chSSQ Have a great time!

The Before & After Of Creative Decisions!

Dear folks, it’s getting current again that literature is not math. So, let’s try to explain today what’s all about it. First of all, writers can be inspired from lots of things. As I’ve been discussing at my latest interview in The Independent Authors Network, one practical way to get solid foundations with language, in the sense of fantastic, is to receive stimuli and create chains of words within seconds that help us create thoughts, decisions and material. This can also happen at the audio-visual sphere. Nevertheless, the special torture instrument of this statement lies on exemplification. You may still not understand everything related with the creative writing process, but at the rest of it you’re in… Or better say, not exactly, projects that don’t deal with an artist’s journey presenting the commercial cinema and Hollywood shift from artistic foundations to multi-faceted expertise. An example that has dominated my thoughts both creatively and artistically is how many different things can be rotated around a simple project, movie, song, award, love affair, whether we’re talking about Gaga and A Star Is Born, launching a product in the internet, etc. Spinning messages in a multi-layered web of actions, can do lots of creative work. But let’s just get that last thing and all about creative decisions analytically.

The artistic cover of the hardcover of Alice in Wonderland, describes a dialogue of her with the cat, at what we Greeks say the ear of the book: “But I don’t want to get baffled with lunatics” said Alice. “Uh oh, but you can’t avoid that” said the cat. “We’re all lunatics here”. One of the problems of solid writing is when your intellectual child gets full of messages and no theme at all. The best way to battle it is getting past coincidences, non-linear time and unstable realities and rather more chaotic writing, that is what Robert McKee names anti-plot! Getting more familiar with structure, plot and characters lays the reality that example is leadership. Writers who got past biographical writing and perhaps Osama Bin Laden as well, have been entangled to the inexhaustible reality of myths. Can a myth be more than a type of story if compared to fantasy that contradicts reality? Of course it can! It’s all about being real with being similar. What’s the difference? Bearing in mind that art is always a reflection, a mirror of our culture, differences are underlined by a specific spacetime, with specific meanings, with specific characters, at a specific time frame, where the process of personalizing the messages of the writer is a whole different reality. It can be something totally irrelevant. The before and after of creative decisions deals first of all with getting pieces of art right and then passing through the small form towards the big form!

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