Function Form Ornament

Ornament = Concept
Function = Character Wants
Form = Relationships

A small secret

screenplays, like the bible, teach us how to use to tools to create or destroy relationships.

it's ALL about relationships.

writing advice

I would have to say, Go with the flow.

There are times when one should focus on one word as their "theme"  and other times when one should focus on many words, many questions dealing with the one word.

It's best to just go with the flow.

stories - what they teach

Stories deal with big issues that affect society.  But they don't teach us how to solve them...they teach us how to navigate through them.

character trinity

Food.  Clothing.  Shelter.

Each should have those bare things.

Learn to Listen

Everywhere you go, questions people ask, pictures and words on walls, etc. will connect with your story.

Example:

The unusual first name of my main character is shared by a baseball player in my hometown.  A picture of that player was on the wall of the room I was in for work.  A room I had never been in before...the owner of this particular production company I was working for that day walked in just as I looked up from the picture and immediately it clicked...this owner had the exact personality I was writing in my character.

Four to five "signs" a day will suggest something in your story.

Hegel misinterpreted

Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis

Misinterpreted Example:

Writer - Editor - writer/editor.

Correct interpretation:

Writer - Non writer = 

Now why can't we finish the equation?

They cancel each other out.

Just kidding.

Because we need the 'emotional tool' to create the synthesis between the two.

Example

Whore - Prood - Whore who uses Condoms.

Synthesis is a compromise.  It is brought about by the use of a tool.

The use of something outside the body.

Remember - We have Rational - Emotional - Physical.

Emotional and Rational can come in any order but through the use of the physical we get synthesis.

And how sin and syn and original sin mix it up together is up to you to C.