Relevance & Provocation
Nothing is as Relevant as, Your, “Here and Now.” Fair enough. But why would I want to watch your, “here and now?” What makes it worth watching? Million dollar question.
“Provocation,” is the why. I find it Provocative when I identify with the character or characters in a movie. Often I identifying with the characters in movies and television and even add their cool parts to my cool parts by acting out or quoting movie lines in conversations or refer to a classic scenes most people know.
AS WRITERS, HOW DO WE DO THAT? Write with Relevance and Provocation.
As writers I believe we need to, “get into character.”
We become the character we’re creating. We live in their body, we go through their experiences, physical, emotional, relational. We talk and laugh like them, whatever humane experiences the story calls for we live the details in our imagination like real life then transfer that experience to the page. A writer takes hold of the brilliant ever-changing friendly brush to paint what we call the, “human experience.”
More importantly and note worthy.
“We become their mind,(characters in development) their soul. We become what they do, where they go, what they say and think.” How frigging cool is that?! It’s hard work.
DRAW FROM THE DEEP WELL OF HUMANITY. Through research and many re-writes we get all the body parts and tasty tidbits to complete the story. By the final draft our characters and story are Polished. (There’s a lot of development and tech talk in between that’s left out.)
Where ever their story takes place, that’s where I now live. What’s cool and scary about that is that I’m the creator of their, “here and now.” What an immense responsibility.
It gets fleshed out in the development process. Developpment doesnt mean your alone writing for countless hours.
Development means you’re in a community of sorts, have fellow writers you know and trust where you run your work through each other like iron sharpening iron. Entering screenwriting contests. Running your story through the screenwriters algorithms and more.
Relevance; Relevance is the concept of one topic being connected to another topic in a way that makes it useful to consider the second topic when considering the first. The concept of relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and library and information science. Most fundamentally, however, it is studied in epistemology (the theory of knowledge). Different theories of knowledge have different implications for what is considered relevant and these fundamental views have implications for all other fields as well.
Provocation; noun
Definition of provocation
1: the act of provoking: INCITEMENT2: something that provokes, arouses, or stimulates
“Relevance & Provocation,” two of the fundamentals that help us create great stories.
When we write, Relevance and Provocation are always forefront throughout the process.