The secret of successful writing is this: you must be able to hold the unwavering attention of the reader, listener or viewer, for the duration of your work. As soon as you have lost their attention, your writing has failed.
So how do you do that? Well, it is necessary to identify exactly what it is within the audience that causes their attention to be held.
The mind is constructed to react and respond in particular ways to specific inputs. We are all literally hard wired, in our brain-mind complex, to have our attention rivetingly held by certain types of stories. These may be true or fictional. Each age, culture and strata of society has slight variations on the basic structure, but essentially, each style follows the same principles, because they are a biological imperative in the human race.
The first secret of story telling is to realise that our mind has particular structures that are identical in each and every one of us.
These structures cause us to respond in emotional ways to particular inputs such as excitement at our own success, sadness at a death, anger at being frustrated in our desires, a lump in the throat watching someone being rescued, tears of joy at the homecoming of a long lost, and loved, family member, the thrill of surviving a dangerous situation, and so on.
Your emotions are the driving forces of your life. Story telling is the means of causing the subconscious mind of your audience to produce specific emotions. It is also the way to bring specific parts of your personalities to the surface.
It is this emotional reaction which causes people to pay full attention to what you are expressing, whatever the format of your writing - novels, plays, scripts, speeches etc. The more you can cause people to remain attentive, which means the more you master the art of eliciting of emotions, the more successful you will be.
It is this single skill that separates the ordinary person from the leader and trendsetter. You need to develop the ability, and have the knowledge, to speak directly to the subconscious mind of those you wish to communicate with.
Screen and story writing can be taught in a very short space of time, once you have the method laid out for you
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