Screenwriting : Do any of you secretly let your writing be guided by esoteric practices... by Sandy Lane

“Most things come to me in my bath” Dalton Trumbo never said this but he should have.

No.

My stories come from my dreams and depression. These characters demand I write… when you write them down they exist when they exist they have a life of their own. Recently I dreamed of 4 empires all from different times at some point in an alternate universe these empires collided through a rip in space and war started between empires. They demanded I wrote this down…they are stuck all they see is a rip in the sky some fear this and some think it’s a prophecy… but they are lost.

Hi, Sandy Lane. I come up with a lot of script ideas and scenes by combining things, looking at pictures online, watching videos, social media, etc.

Ideas are ten a penny, it's the ones that refuse to go away which you need to write down, preferably if they also give you goosebumps. Sometimes a story writes itself faster than you can write it down and the characters in it shout at you. Strange but true.

Juan Rodriguez love that you were compelled to write it down. Maurice Vaughan you are inspired by numerous things, my work is very much a product of the state of the world for women and men, especially in my homeland and from a friend's experience. David Taylor I've experienced that it's incredible.

I dreamed of a charming and beautiful woman. When I woke up, she was still by my side.

I had this dream, but maybe I could write a novel or a thriller. What do you think?

Yes

Work and live clean, no stupifactions. It has to be yours, it has to be it is that simple. Any esoteric influences would be welcome asking for strengh to live but asking dieties for inspiration is not their purpose. Its a job writing and writing for money is harder.

When tou write a story you already know three things the begining the middle and especially the end. its called for me POS, Problem Objective Solution. Thats the way stories are told, most anyway unless you utilise other styles like Saramago. Think of it as an argument before you get into one you do so already equiped with an answer- solution, opinion, you dont go in empty headed, maybe not the answer of others but your answer. Then theyre not writing the story. Good luck

I get possessed by the writing gods. Alcohol and coffee don’t work on me ^_^

Wow, coffee Very nice

Gregory Baker i do write with the problem-solution framework in mind most of the time but as David Taylor has experienced, sometimes i get an idea and the story writes itself faster than i can type and the characters take me to a conclusion i had never considered (see also RB’s blogpost on how Geffert wrote Weapons)

regarding my last comment, i spectacularly misremembered the Weapons writer-director’s name: it’s Cregger

Sandy Lane I definitely have experienced how meditation, relaxation, and being free from coded patterns, social group rules, and basically the things that we think we are, have to do, and keep us stuck...enhance any artform. When we are in peace, free, in our expansive, multidimensionality, well, then you magnetize. You call in the ideas, and the ideas matching your frequency, they come to you, and go within your heart, connecting to your imagination, and uniting your inner kingdom, then well...prepare to feel your hands dance the typing dance like there's no tomorrow. And, this is work, this is not some fanciful tale, this creates work, this brings in your voice, and whatever story is meaningful to you, it is valid, and it is your genre, and it is from you. It's all a matter of vibration, perspective...and commitment to the work, after the muse and you connect.

Absolutely! Carl Jung referred to "downloads" ...