Ok, so posting what someone else said is anything but creative. However, I heard this quote on a podcast this afternoon and had to track it down. It seems the perfect thing for this audience.”Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Keep Story at hand. Use what you learn from it as a guide, until command of its principles becomes as natural as the talent you were born with. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable sumo suits, your dance will dazzle the world.” Robert McKee, script writer/doctor, teacher
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Except this is wishful thinking. For the vast majority of us, unfortunately, our dances will provide fodder for public mockery, all our noble intentions and earnestness be damned.
Wasn’t McKee played by Brian Cox in the film Adaptation?
I wish I could even get to the point where I could formulate the challenge in those terms. Got to have a story to tell.
“Create your formalist experiments every day, notion by notion, structure by structure, brilliant insight by brilliant insight. Keep the concept at hand. Let its necessity and originality guide you beyond habit and limitation…” That way I side-step the burden of storytelling. Inspiring, though.