Writing a good solid FILM SCRIPT has kept my mind churning for a number of years now. A few courses later and a few dozen books on SCREENWRITING later, I am still trying to come up with something that would be considered, solid, unique and sell able. I do love the process and the constant challenge. Apparently they say that there are really no new ideas left. Everything is simply derivative and apart from a very few classic stories being regurgitated in new ways, it's tough to impress the readers and get an idea in the studios hands. I am working on something now which might be the one. On the other hand, maybe I should simply write this and have another piece of my girlfriends marvelous homemade cheesecake instead. Here is a paragraph I just came across that turned my crank.
STRUCTURE AS RHETORIC
Make no mistake.: While a story's
inspiration may be a dream and its final effect aesthetic emotion, a
work moves from an open premise to a fulfilling climax only when the
writer is possessed by serious thought. For an artist must have not
only ideas to express, but ideas to prove. Expressing an idea, in
the sense of exposing it, it never enough. The audience must not
just understand; it must believe. You want the world to leave your
story convinced that yours is a truthful metaphor for life. And the
means by which you bring the audience to your point of view resides
in the very design you give your telling ..As you create your story,
you create your proof; idea and structure intertwine in rhetorical
relationship.
STORYTELLING is the creative
demonstration of truth. A story is the living proof of an idea, the
conversation of idea to action. A story's event structure is the
means by which you first express, then prove your idea...without
explanation.
