We hear a lot about CHANGE during this Presidential Race. Can we as Writers make CHANGE?
(and not with our pocketbooks, smartpants. but with our pens.)
To start this discussion...
SARTRE BELIEVED:
Literature could be a political tool when he was young, gave up on this idea when he was old.
ROBBE-GRILLET:
Saw no political role for literature, saying, "In art, nothing can be known in advance," which is to say one may not sit down and plan
the subject matter or style of a story before writing it. And then there's the old maxim: "The writer doesn't choose the subject, the subject
chooses the writer."
BILL MARTELL WROTE:
You don't want to write a script that just sits there. You want your script to be *alive* and *exciting* and *emotional*. You want your script
to having a wagging tail and jump into the audience's lap. You want to create script that actively brings emotions to the audience. Sure, the audience has
emotions, but a *rock* isn't going to make them feel those emotions.
It doesn't matter if the character cries... but if we can make a reader cry with our writing, we may end up making a sale!
How do you make the reader feel? Stick around! Many of the tips here feature methods to create an emotional story, emotional scenes, and an emotional
response in the reader and cinema audience. Our goal is to make people feel.
Can we as Writer's CHANGE the way that the human race THINKS of a human life?
Can we make them CHANGE the way that they feel about themselves, first...perhaps?
NEW YORK TIMES WROTE:
"Continue to ignore the plight of urban schools [and they probably will continue to be ignored, because there's no immediate financial
profit to be gained from improving them], and soon about half of New York City's one million school-children won't graduate from high school."
IT'S "beccsLAW":
To help me with my 1ST LAW…I quote my new friend…
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE:
"I don't look very important but I know that I exists and that they exists. And if I knew the art of convincing people, I should go and sit down next
to that handsome white-haired gentleman and I should explain to him what existence is. The thought of the look which would come on to his face if I did makes
me burst out laughing."
LAW #1
Make your reader burst out laughing.
