Screenwriting : Are there limits in writing fiction? by Conrad Ekeke

Thanks Emily. :)

Frankenstein. Dracula. Animal Farm. 2001: Space Oddysey. The Planet of the Apes. Avatar. The Fall. Brazil. The Science of Sleep. Willy Wonka. Disney. The Hobbit. Marvel comics. Martial arts movies where one guy/woman beats 50 assassins. Stranger Than Fiction. Need I say more?

No Bill, thanks

Well yeah!

I think it sounds wonderful!

I think your limited to what you know about the world, but you can always learn more which inevitably expands your writing capabilities.

Sounds wonderful Adam. Thanks.

Might it be true to say a writer can write anything he/she wants be it myth, imagination, fact, knowing, knowledge, truth, higher/lower self, present, memoirs, futuristic. It is what a writer shares with others where the boundaries come Into force?

I love fiction. Making a story by your imagination is more potent and respectful than using the known products of our world. When you write a story all made up by your imagination that's a whole new world and you have something different to present. That's what I do for almost all of my stories. In my opinion it's a great job, so why not? Of course you can use your imagination.

Well, I actually see no reason.

Me too... I was thinking, that imagination should carry believable facts.

I think to make something totally new and unknown to our facts is actually greater than that. That shows how powerful your mind is to create a world. Something unbelievable of your imagination related to facts that you create.

Owen, I meant writing on a myth and changing it all to suit your own imagination. Think of these Greek gods' mythologies and you trying to make it look different from what is naturally believed... Or you creating your own story that looks everything like a myth. I think you got the idea with your second response :)

How about imagination and the link that has to psychic abilities, divine powers? Which is real, which is real yet imagined? All interlinked...then we could discuss dreams nd the message they give us and presenting those through various art forms. It is interesting.

Yeah Hayley, something like that. It's interesting and I like going towards that thinking.

I see what you're getting to, Owen.

Okay, that helps too Owen thanks.

Yes Owen. Yes Conrad. No limits in the inner world is a good thing, makes the world go round. Go for it.....I am:)

"Wanderbaar" Hayley. Wonderful and I'm behind you :)

On the cover page of my most recent scripts, it says screenplay by Phillip E. Hardy; and underneath my name, it says "Based on myth and bullshit." I hope that answers your question.

Carl Jung has already scientifically answered that question: it's a big yes. Past lives are a different problem, but collective subconscious or whatever is guessed beyond the self and the soul does hint at vast knowledges that are beyond the intellectual process of acquired memory. Experience does prove this theory by the way but it requires to venture in non-cartesian paths... Fyi knowledge is "connaissance" which is "con-nacere" in latin, and it literally means "with-birth". I'm not sure what they meant when they created the word but it's definitely fascinating.

Does that work for you?! Love it.

Fred' love that touch :) Hayley, it always does. Thanks Phillip. That's genius too. :)

Conrad; The limits to writing fiction are established only by your imagination – so I guess the answer to your question must be “yes”.

Yes Doug. Thanks too.

I don't even understand the question - it is like asking if water can ever not be wet.

Ya Joe; you got it - it's kinda like that.

Somepeople wouldn't know if water is actually wet based on your view on how a question should look like but no one knows it all, even the very simple things that might appeal to many, some don't know them and would love to. Not being harsh but putting an appropriate metaphor tells me you understood the question. Thanks however, now I think I know water is wet.

But yes, water can ever not be wet if you don't wet it :D

Ya know Conrad, it’s like one of my favorite quotes from Bill Clinton: “that all depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is.”

Exactly Doug. Always a variant in every thought and mine is, if there's a way in, there obviously is a way out no matter. I guess I learned finally.

The mind is a tremendous computer, it can conjure up great answers, your mind is your treasure to great imaginative fiction. Writing is an essential contribution to knowledge. Patrick Delligatti

Very true Patrick. The mind is just the universe, way as I see it. Writing makes it complicated sometimes you know. To come up with a theory of your thought on how possible somethings could look like can be argued since different persons have different ways of thinking and perceiving things. Thanks for the enlightenment.

First I apologize but cannot 'Not"...Does that list include 'Kill Bill" 1 & 2?

His/her imagination is the sum parts of experiences in my view. Much like what intuition is. However, so what ? I've written three novels from my own imagination but I realize they are founded in fact or thought to be fact.

Yes, some of the best stories are pulled out of thin air. Some authors even create languages.

Once a lady asked what I did. "And actor,"said I. Her reply? "You make up stories and tell lies." "yes, it's how we find truths". that still is my reply.

Hahah yes Charles.