Screenwriting : Has anyone here tried employing the stream of consciousness narrative in their stories? by Kar Thik

Mmmmm. I loves me some stream of consciousness writing. Sometimes when I'm walking...my brain just starts rolling. Thank goodness for tape recorders. Sometimes when I'm sleeping...it does the same thing, and wakes me up. I'll be too awake at that point, and have to write it down and continue the riff. I also go to bed with my micro-cassette recorder, because some nights, I just can't get up and write it down. Two of my college professors, the great poet Robert Dana, and the great writer Eugene Wildman, gave us a lot of moments in class with this technique. "Rifle, don't stifle." is a good rule of thumb. Some of the best writers in history - from Dostoevsky to Proust to Woolf to Poe to Joyce to Updike to Wolfe to Kerouac to Vonnegut to Morrison - utilized the technique as well. In film writing, I have limitations in letting my characters go on. Their dialogues must move the story forward, and can't "flow" as greatly as characters in a novel, short story or poem. I can get that first chunk of dialogue out through stream of consciousness, but at the same time, I mostly know what that character must say at any given point. All dialogue is "conscious", of course, but at the same time....I gotta reign it in and polish it in my rewrites. In film, it's called "Retro Scripting". My favorite improvised dialogues by movie characters have to be Dennis Hopper's characters "Billy" in Easy Rider, and "The Journalist" in Apocalypse Now. Mr. Hopper was a genius in improvising. The British film director Mike Leigh is well-known for it. Stanley Kubrick did it. Oliver Stone does it. Robin Williams did it. Matt Damon does it. Marlon Brando did it. Larry David does it. The late great John Cassavettes did it. Judd Apatow does it. The Mumblecore film directors do it. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola do it. Jim Jarmush does it. The list goes on and on. That kind of collaboration has created many great movie scenes. Sometimes it even happens in post-production. As an aside....I took improv classes in my youth, and it opened up a part of my creative side that wasn't so well fleshed-out. I would recommend that any creative writer take improv classes, too - or any type of acting classes. I know they made me more "well-rounded" as a writer.