Voice Introduces A New Experience: The Creative Mindset!

Hello folks, all people of creative writing, business and technological worlds may consider my today’s theme of discussion of exceptional importance or somewhat advanced. Nevertheless, no matter how much beginner or advanced someone is, or something, whom you speak to and (as always) what or whom do you think you’ll find (that is both irony and approbation) there can be explanation of the title of this post, depending on how it is presented. Voice will be a catapult…

In order to speak, we need a voice. Characters both in novels and screenplays are being judged by their authenticity and uniqueness, implying the matching of words with actions which is pictured through their voice. This applies to business world as well. When dealing with marketing or technology we wonder: marketing according to whom? According to how it is presented at college? According to what the applied business world urges based on the production system? According to what the world or the public opinion poses in order to influence more? And when dealing with the triad creative – marketing – technology, how does one dimension affect the other, if combined? Isn’t it true that the writer or the individual markets his ideas, experiences and world view and his behavior (better or worse) in specific spacetimes?

So, let’s analyze the above! An individual, that is a character, a writer or a professional will be parameterized on lots of denominations: age, gender, education, profession, interests, experiences, politics or religion, vision, stage of evolution, relational potential, entertainment tastes and if further applied, principles and value systems. One very important aspect we, you, have to know before being trapped is that systems drive behavior meaning that whatever you sow, you reap… The speech of a Greek artist in TEDx was entitled that you have to “Create skies if you want to see stars”. So, metaphorically, as usually, (that is both an irony and approbation) the skies are many… But if we can all agree to archetypal considerations, this means commonalities for all people, we can learn better and perform better when it comes to the dimensions described.

The picture above portrays sound waves, hence the product of synthesis has to be clearly defined and understood if it is to be applied, schematically, to the creative writing, marketing and technology arenas… As a first observation, I consider it has great perturbational value. As a writer, our characters have to be unique, authentic and with a crystal-clear shape of story arc. This is what characterization means, for books and screenplays. All matter is pulled by the gravity of the world that it comes from, and not any other. This implies a clear identification of filtering a product of many voices, nevertheless it leaves at the mercy of God novice individuals, ‘little boys’ and ‘little girls’ who may not yet possess ‘the mechanisms’ to defend against the brutal reality of the 21st century.

Little by little though I have outlined character structure and as you know, the available themes in literature and cinema can be many. Exactly the same analysis is applied to marketing and technology. First things first. In order to do marketing, you need a product. Price, promotion and marketplaces, are shaped around the tangible reality of a specific product or a specific service. But at the center of the markets of Western capitalism lay consumers, individuals, humans… So, applying what has been mentioned above, shouldn’t there be demographics, profiles and psychographics for market analysis exactly as a writer defines character structures? They exist since the dawn of marketing.

So far, I described quite analytically the independent dimensions creative, marketing, technology, but I have not yet discussed how the one affects the other. Affection though is complicated and indirect. First things first. A few observations of mine in the internet. Having witnessed the web since 2007, there are occasions of people swelling, inflating the world of others and presenting it as accomplishments, or applying previously reported failures, bloody massacres only to prove better. In a world where what matters most is not what we’re alike at, but at what we differ (including extra-terrestrial intelligence), originality is important. These strategies won’t fail from day one. But in leadership there is comparative evaluation. They fail as being part of somebody else’s strategy and not your own strategy. The swelling of ‘your neighbor’ but not your own.

Hence there is a raw material for everyone, proving that the rights and the mistakes are very specific and common for everyone. Geographical restrictions or liberation, individuals following international standards and not acting like localists, thinking globally and acting locally, may prove differences in subject matter. May create a Greek artist following his Hollywood passion. May borrow themes from abroad. May engage in literature without borders. May quest bibliographical and technological research to create a network. And they make people understand better the digital reality of the 21st century. A world where pioneering science and AI, marketing, technology and creativity dance all together at the perturbational universe described at the photo above. Have a great time folks!

One Size Doesn't Fit All: The Creative Mindset!

The Disruptors - Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon

Dear folks, there's been a long journey of over a decade to come up with a version of materials, creative projects and social networks so I believe now it's time to think I am at a crossroads of where to go with my creativity. Before that happens I would like to talk today about the entire pack of book publishing, digital marketing and meteoric technology know hows. If we were freshmen in the university or if we had to give advice to our younger versions of self and this little guy got to know of memoirs dealing with Amazon, social networks, Apple approved aggregators with books, plenty of academic testimonials and creativity driven from the top, this guy would feel the king of the world... Reality is much more different but much more promising as well as it's true that at that ages we may lack analytical thinking on the issues above, moreover, quantifying our decision making. 

 

Getting started with my own paradigm, book launch in Amazon is enough for the company to copy the file and distribute it all around the world where the company has sites and offices and that's the first exposure of the writer towards global understanding. Nevertheless there are dozens of people and networks involved to bring a project to life. The writer, the writing consultants: story consultant and proofreader, the intellectual property offices, the graphic designers to master the digital files' approval, UK and USA digital distribution companies, networks to get a beautiful book cover that will be fine with your psychology, ISBNs from The National Library of Greece, "find" all the above networks in terms of affordable costs or being free, markets' approvals at the end, do you believe I am complete with the above? Not even the double of it! Planning a book launch, comes with planning your web presence including an entire pack of digital marketing activities. 

 

Thinking of a writer's web page, thinking of a Facebook page, thinking of Facebook banners, thinking of engines that shorten URLs, thinking of photos and campaign materials, thinking of podcasts, if you think of podcasts then you come up with free text to speech software, then comes sound recording, so, what's next? Afterwards you could possibly seek author interviews and getting familiar with digital PR that some of them come up with larger networks promoting your work. Advice with Twitter followers and, if you're lucky enough getting book reviews. Nevertheless, book reviews are not the singular reason that the entire success of your book pass through as it's important to consider what sort of validation you ask. A novel? A screenplay? An essay? Poetry? So, who's responsible for the previous? Quite often, book reviews from the crowd are being considered far from industry validation such as a publishing house approval, movie approval or foreign rights...! It just helps with sales...

 

Now, in terms of the validation mentioned, are the issues presented above the single dimension of where your creative success and fulfillment depend on? If someone writes a screenplay, you have to consider script coverage (meaning, professional evaluation) from accredited artistic organizations and get to know things beforehand and afterwards related with the movie industry. Reading books, getting to know the ecosystem of cinema, experimenting at your blog. If you're writing philosophy or if your book is thematic and it's not literature then this is a field of subject matter experts. What the heck are you writing in the end?  OK you wrote it and it's ready to get published. If you have deep pockets you may consider book events but I believe this goes hand in hand with what kind of validation you seek, as stated above. Are you truly familiar with how the above activities work, or do you believe you will get stuck at somewhere, proving that in the 21st century educational backup is more than necessary? And how far are you willing to go in terms of writing your memoir by acknowledging that what's most important is an alignment with "management", "experience" and "company profiles"?

 

Now let's get deeper to tougher considerations. When it comes to the campaigns described, perhaps setting up Google My Business, the hunt to come up with an article 24 hours per day and much much more personal work as it is described above, that perhaps you knew nothing, not even a hint of it 2 years ago and you have to discover everything through specialized Google queries, how much time and effort are you willing to invest? Are you willing to align your creative life with the rest of your life? And if so, are there problems being confronted? Have you truly acknowledged that the 4 industry disruptors of the 21st century that is Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook make it clear cut that not even the half of us know where something truly begins and where it truly ends? What about technology upheavals and AI? Familiar with the science of how big data and what actually sells in the internet work? Interested to go the extra mile and get solid foundations with science if the starving artist syndrome is not your type and you're truly interested in career building? A case for all of us or some?

 

OK then, you say, I'm starting to get the big picture so this means I have a solid understanding of what my options are, what market research says and how I will proceed with my opportunities and decision making. But having to consider a balance between work life and personal life, where books may be something completely extra, considering that success is also making money, your first concern deals with career management. Are all of us doing the same, or familiar technological jobs? So if not, is the above a work worth doing? How fast and for how long? Remember, these mean nothing yet! John's Revelation fastly approaches! Never ever engage in activities or the internet without a strategy. If you think that with your first or your second book you're gonna make a living, forget it. Willing to adapt a book into a screenplay? Have you found this one, unique, diamond company that makes it with the lowest cost possible? 

 

Are you willing to invest in quantity and not just quality to make it happen? But when? How fast are you willing to work? Since you're not getting paid, are you aware that slowness is not an advantage? Familiar with what global presence truly means and how to deal with foreign companies in general? Aware that this may mean hundreds of emails with the companies, your consultants and your options to get to know how things work, or even worse, get to know things you're not aware of including reading dozens of articles in the internet related with the industry? Do you consider yourself a perfect user of PCs and the internet? How good are you with the ecosystem of websites if creative concerns or problems arise? Where does art start or end and where does the business side of things continue? And so far, you may be familiar with nothing in terms of opening accounting books in the future to support your work legally and safely. Isn't this an ambitious, bold and extremely risky step that you shall not consider away from an employee - boss relationship? How does your character correlate with that? When making money with your art then you come up to the conclusion that money, dates and time matter more than usual. And what if you can't focus to complete many projects in the long term or if focus and writing a lot seems difficult?

 

So far you must be perfectly aware of that success and effectiveness as a writer started for you as mere inspirations and joy of writing paragraphs and discussing your art in the internet, but it continued with confronting completely different, complex and fuzzy issues that do not care about what a business card of yours writes. You come up with other concerns and other professions. There are a lot of people in history who decided they are creators and not economists. They are artists and not technocrats, publishers or business people. Some of them failed, were deceived and some of them still have nothing to do with the dynamic profile of this article. For them it's simply that the internet or digital marketing is not an issue, not dare to mention about science and AI, they're just others. OK, now we're getting closer to the truth and solid arguments but when it comes to the internet there is a quote: Think Global, Act Local. Don't you think the term "international" is quite heavy? And what exactly does it mean to go beyond borders? Willing to discover that to succeed it means you will find yourself investing in a decade of creativity as no writer solves his problems with his first book? Proficient in the English language and moreover, with professional standards?

 

Personally speaking, I have found myself in the middle of dozens of theorizations, analyses, book readings and book evaluations, but more importantly I have found myself analyzing, deciding and generating arguments in a sense that ordinary people CAN'T. Conclusively, now we realize that to innovate, create and pioneer in book publishing and the internet in the 21st century involves dozens of non-linear activities if compared with mere art. So that's the exact reality of what it means to survive in the world of the 4 disruptors, these are Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook. In a world where money doesn't bring happiness but it surely helps to get things done in the long term. Have a great time folks!

Writing Vs 'Painting By Numbers'!

Hio folks, I believe creative potential should begin with the end in mind, so, this is the topic of my today’s campaign in terms of writing and movie predictions! I’d like to point out a few cases relative to the statement that writing and literature are not math. Furthermore, being in the middle of getting grades for my screenplay, how can the reality of art override statistics and working for the golden ratio? So, let’s put first things first:

 

Screenwriting coverage, meaning, screenwriting consulting in terms of addressing a Hollywood office finds screenwriters in the middle of the ocean of notes, analyses and lots of performance indices in terms of measuring the effectiveness of the script. To override a reality means to know it too well so that you can break the rules. There are 3 different aggregated evaluations for screenplays that should be confronted by every writer’s creative fantasy so to improve, the grades pass, consider and recommend. Even with Hollywood offices, 87% of scripts get a pass, 10% of scripts get a consider and 3% of scripts get a recommend which is the first Joker of seeing your dreams at the big screen! So, here is where reality gets in and the reality of math gets critically altered…

A screenwriter is being evaluated for overall impression of the script, concept, plot, structure, characters, dialogue. Most importantly, he gets analytical and tangible notes on all the above, being provided with specific suggestions for improvements that can be either something objective or a more general concept. In terms of screenwriting, the writer for his characters is something like their own creator, their God, so it is important to create characters with strengths and weaknesses, characters dealing with conflicts and finding out how they behave in extremes, but more importantly characters that are not invulnerable. For me, this is where the initial vision and dreaming of Hollywood has to reoccur. For what once has been considered fluid, dynamic, flexible and in the middle of a pack of creative goals’ setting, mere validation sometimes makes it static, stiff and a bit sad. To use a scientific term, it’s all about fluid dynamics!

Now, what it truly means to fight painting by numbers and how can working for the golden ratio be overridden? Based on the above, it’s clearly understood that how a writer thinks, takes creative decisions and transforms his word in a piece of paper can determine in the long term his/her economics. We become what we think about… Script coverage judges express from the very beginning that marks should not get you down and that pros deal with the fact that changing lines of dialogue or little scene expressions rarely solves the issue. Pros find the note under the note, meaning, we have to go beyond borders and see behind the script. Judges may be wrong about what’s not working but they may be right that something is broken… So, what’s the surrounding mentality of what’s working and what’s broken? Can a creator discover everything on his/her own?

Writers and especially screenwriters should first of all determine the sources and the ecosystem of their ideas and visions. Even though we all acknowledge that no two writers are ever the same, there has to be an emotional and creative investment on the art, to make it function. Specifically, to know your themes (especially if a writer wants to work on a ‘fine line’ of projects), what inspires you, what influences you and what you’d like to achieve. Even better to know inside out your own thought model. As I have stated above, our thoughts in a process of 10 minutes determine the money we will get in the future! Putting in the same scale art and statistics we discover that gravity holds a special place for art, if the creator learns to open up and more importantly if he insists on assisted self-discovery that can be shaped by numerous forces, who we are and who we are not… Have a great time folks!

The 3 Different Subjects Of Movie Scripts!

 

Dear folks, there’s been enough chit chat so far around the notions that movie script attributes and a few constructed sentences in a script may simply resemble with the person and the fact that the writer is not responsible for what the characters say…! But what does this mean analytically? How does it correlate, if ever, with the quality and the talent of the writer? And how can it be revelatory in later stages, about the writer’s vision and inspiration? First of all, all movie writers have to know they’re dealing with 3 different subjects in this venture: the writer, the role/avatar and the actor! So let me here explain these ‘interesting dimensions’ analytically.

 

A.) The Writer: He/she is the most turbulent of the three when it comes to the creation of alter egos and alternate identities. He/she can be auditory, visual, kinesthetic or even an intellectual (‘digital’, here, is the title in lessons). Digital or intellectual might be rare to occur but it is an essential stage for many writers during their exploratory phase of the journey and coming up with authentic voices, voices that come from the subconscious, how to ‘brand yourself’ as a writer. The other types that deal majorly with the senses and the sense of the organic process of writers, meaning, understanding all the different components of the art of writers that have to function holistically as an organism in the script so that it can be effective, being developed progressively or all along, can enhance the cinematic aspect of things even though everything starts with the script. One of the drawbacks of being alone, as a start, in this role is the potential impossibility of the writer to think of everything, imagine of everything and make everything believable from the start.

 

 

B.) The Role: Here, the best way to deal with something primordial for the writer, at least as a beginning, is one very simple advice, “lend me your ears”. Or to use a very interesting term a producer has created in his book, “asshole proof”. Stay tuned folks, we’re not doing accuracy exercises, at least, not yet. The subject and problematic of this dimension is the entire process of looking to validate and get feedback of your script. From the very moment it occurs, we are found in the middle of the ocean trying to figure out the words, acting like a wordslinger, guessing meanings and trying to make all aspects of our language finally work, only to find out we start to lose the edge. Why’s that happening? Remember the concept all along that we’re dealing with 3 different personas, not one, neither two, make it three baby uu uu yeah. The writer has imagined an alter ego that must finally be put into a form. Then this form, the avatar, becomes an independent character and consulting seems to become a one-way ticket. Then someone you completely have no idea of, has to read your script and say yes. How the heck should we come up with such a unification? As I stated in the beginning it’s all about listening. Listening to your characters, the notes you got, your experiences, books that you may have read about all sorts of things, talking about the multilayered web of cross-checking and validating your language. Accuracy should never override the joy of creation that proves the writer is not an asshole, he just tries a lot to become one!

 

 

C.) The Actor: Perfect tuning! If we writers, have got the validation stars on the forehead, then the script is probably ready for the big or small studios and a few people, later on, will have to show their affection. Does it resonate to the actor? Is this a role he can say, hey, I want to be that person? Does it echo in his mind? Have we come up with the super-objective of the movie, meaning, what does the writer seek uber alles? Even if we have come up with such conclusions, how is the writer’s process affected and what does it mean for his script? Having dealt at least primarily with a few acting techniques such as The Stanislavski System, trying to understand the eco-system of the industry, what would they love and what wouldn’t, probably having seen dozens of movies to get inspired, be educated on art, push it to the edge only to find out where it leads will probably prove of tremendous help, but make no mistake gentlemen. You don’t have to act to write! Writers grasp language, use language, make mistakes with language, imagine language, they are being taught language, some of them they may even surpass their ‘teachers’ with language, but it’s all about being focused on the single art instead of the many. Absorbing knowledge and language can be multi-faceted but it should never prompt us with extraordinary risks.

 

At the end of the day, big imaginations created The Jack Story. Writers though, should be bold enough to create, to risk exposure, most of all to learn, but also strive for perfection and not showcase. Those of you that would like to get a sense of my work, you can find the already attached books in this article if you simply navigate at The Independent Authors Network official link. Here it is: bit.ly/39chSSQ Have a great time folks!

The Importance Of A Filmmaking Studio Mindset

Hello folks, today I will explain through my own paradigm how everyone’s thought laboratory (for each concerned case) can affect us deeply in the way we act or write. One of the very precious comments of one of my professors back then in Jacob Krueger Studio was how to be present in the moment. As a first view you may say this is the case to improve in terms of lack of focus. After all, discussions and likes both in the internet and outside is a way of declaring present… I am not interested in such presents… So let me use my creativity and writing to explain all about my next steps and how to make the most out of them, present. Creative rights from a production company include the publishing a book option, a book of the final draft, not now. First of all, can the audience of a new writer be compared with the audience and leverages of a good entertainment studio? Secondly, web leverages from a studio can tremendously help books’ profitability. I am always talking about the missing keys right now to fit Amazon’s algorithm of sales…! To the point, there can’t be more proofs right now of scaling up if there’s not a screenplay sale to an entertainment studio. But let’s just view things analytically. Based on the above I would like to explain what they mean if compared with what I said in the beginning, my thought laboratory.

Having studied and talked numerous times on digital marketing, creativity and AI, a magical world of power emerges in front of us, with plenty of perspective, plenty of future potential and plenty of promises for a curriculum vitae. So, today’s point is how exactly all the above are stuck back, frozen and sub-functioning because the creator may have a peculiar relationship with loyalty, promises and the need to make a few heads happy. I am talking about proving creative success by accepting a hypothesis exogenously defined…! This is the case for science as well, there can’t be a theory founded if we don’t accept such a hypothesis, Einstein used the speed of light for this… All of the above concepts related with web marketing and digital perspectives can be ‘simply measured’ and in order to work for newly-born writers – this doesn’t include writers who may have thousands of followers or members somewhere and can leverage social decisions – there have to be extra steps taken. For me, since I have focused not just in self-publishing but in the art of a screenplay is to focus on getting my work ready for the cinema. Fees, leverages and the production company’s audience including colleagues can play a big part in getting things done, in other words, to talk about success and results. After all, aren’t all the above issues of accurate self-evaluation, self-consciousness and self-awareness if it is to remember Goleman’s model of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace?

For everyone of us, being responsible and the sole delegate who determines our own performance is a must in the complex 21st century. If we don’t decide to step away from the conflict, to avoid it in other words, but instead of it, face it, we can all come out a lot stronger. For me, working with the best office in Hollywood can play an integral role in finding creative success. Have a great time folks!

Beyond "Rose Garden, A Second Chance"!

Hio folks, I am doing my best to feel creative and productive as far as writing is concerned, but there are key concerns with me I decided to share with you today. First of all, what you read in the title of this post is the title of my novella that I want to write in Greek. A novella about the ballerine Nefeli who visits the castle of Cinderella and meets Stephen, an astronomer with existential questions and questions of identity! Having read the trilogy of Philip Pullman and feeling delighted with his books, I decided that my fairytale fantasy should have pseudo-scientific elements to make it as interesting as possible. So, here’s where today’s storytelling begins. Inspired by the Screenplay Coverage company, WeScreenplay in Hollywood, there is key criticism that has to be evaluated. First of all, to all writers or mere article makers, there should never be confusion of the fantasy of literature with the fantasy of the mind, qualifications and power with what you put in 90-120 pages of white sheet. That kind of projection is hard, but also easy if being approached with diligence… Fantasy and science fantasy create complexity. Many times, examples being described possess universality but no objectivity, both for the writer and his characters.

What’s the issue? Focus and not giving up. What does it mean, analytically? Hollywood, including many writing coaches cannot understand the art of employing numerous magical descriptions due to lack of formal education, making all characters think they’ve reached somewhere… An example, they cannot understand an artist or a professional who just begins, employing a little bit of writing, a little bit of acting, a little bit of dancing, a little bit of singing, a little bit of everything. This is considered as conflict and giving up. The character should first focus doing one thing right, being effective and only afterwards move on to diversity. In fantasy fairytales with several fields of influence this is more than mandatory to uplevel your story from sheets to streets… It’s all about levelling up. What happens though to stories and science fiction where the characters’ profiles are somewhat advanced? What happens with those stories that deal with scientists, magical kingdoms, businessmen or multi-faceted artists? The rule is one, there are not canons or specific rules. But there are two key concerns that can make the writer improve his thought laboratory and try to make the difference, as being indirectly suggested to me from the writing offices.

Firstly, it’s not your idea, it’s not your concept, it’s not your character, it’s not your level. It’s all about focusing on the tangible plot and structure departments of the story! The art of juggling our entire cosmotheories and what God do we believe in is a Greek phenomenon and perhaps not just Greek… Abroad, things are simple. Can you do the job? Then do it! Unstructured this or that both in art and our resumes (feeling peaceful and normal with who you are) is what causes the plot hole. Second, an advice by the Greek fairytaler Alki Zei. You can talk about anything to anyone if you discover the appropriate form to pass your message. Passing it over to the screenwriting world, it means that Hollywood people are not complex. It’s just a long story. How far is too far? Up until you get to the other side! Even the most fascinating phenomenon in science has been employed with the advice, example is leadership. An example, Aurora Borealis and its colors’ game, inspired the storytelling of a city into heavens. As far as we can make tangible choices, we can also break the rules. For those of you that would like to get a taste of my work, you can read about my books into The Independent Authors Network, IAN if you just follow the link: bit.ly/39chSSQ It portrays my books already attached in here. Have a great time folks!

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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Envisioning the Movie Dimension of my Fairytales!

Dear folks, for there is pressure in fast writing, these days I am 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!