This is so good! Thank you for both the detailed explanations and for making it live and answering questions. Your content is very rich and I've found myself watching your videos over and over again.

@writingforscreens

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Hello Glenn, thank you for sharing your path. Shifting perspective is incredibly illuminating and it leads to unique surprises, I like your examples and congrats on the progress with the novel. Too many times we only beat ourselves up with the huge amount of things we DIDN'T accomplish, and we "forget" all the good things we have done, which only paralizes us in fear, unfortunately! I like what you have suggested in the video here: taking one thing at a time and celebrate any success, recognizing our small progress as a strategy against overwhelm in face of big projects. I wish you would talk more about kindness or forgiveness or however you call this attitude which leads us to persist, overcome problems and hopefully reach the goal with less effort and more enjoyment.

@writingforscreens

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I will definitely try to include more of that idea of kindness of forgiveness toward oneself and the work!

Hi Glenn, thanks for this ongoing series. I'm editing the first draft of my novel and you sharing your process is both helpful and motivating. A couple of things you've mentioned about character development have really worked for me. "Every character thinks they're the main character" is one I keep in mind a lot. And "be in the moment with your character" is another. I've found that I feel more more empathy with some characters I'm writing, which is probably normal. You're going to be more comfortable writing characters that share some of your experiences, values, etc. So getting into the heads of characters that are different is going to be harder work. You can do a full character-building exercise but after you've answered all fifty questions you still need to get the person's tone, their vibe, their aura, I guess you could call it. Any suggestions on how to do that?

@writingforscreens

Ай бұрын

The only way I know to get into a character's tone/vibe is: just let yourself feel. Try to feel it as YOU, even if they are very different from you, even if you dont like them. Try to imagine feeling their needs, their circumstances, their problems. No one will ever know you did this, it's not about declaring a public stance on them. It's just about imagining and feeling. And if that doesn't work - sometimes it doesn't - then just figure out a mechanical, intellectual version of them that you can believe in. Often that's just fine. :)