You’ve planed enough. You have a clear set-up, development and climax. You’ve sliced your project into sequences. Your plot and subplots are clear and cohesive. Your characters are motivated. Their objectives are comprehensible. Their goal set.
Fine! What to do next?
Well, forget about all you’ve planed and ignore all the rules!
When it’s time to write and struggle against the white pages, no advise, no expert, no script doctor or MFA can help you - all you need is to fine tune into this voice in your head.
Just like Joan of Arc right before she charged the Brits!
Louis Ferdinand Celine called it his little music…And writing is the ability to tune into your inner music.
If you can’t tune into this voice of yours – your very own style -, if you don’t feel that voice within you, and don’t get excited and moved into action by it, writing a full manuscript is going to be very difficult - by my experience, impossible.
We all have stories to tell. Great stories, really. Packed with actions and emotions. Twists and turns. But that doesn’t matter - because stories, and writing in general is not about what we have to say or report. It is NOT about how dramatic the situation or how original the set up.
It’s all about how we say it. How we hear it. When we follow and trust that voice in our head.
So fine tune into your mental music… and dance…
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