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Alan Watt, Author/Screenwriter and [Founder of L.A. Writers’ Lab]: The moment we decide to write a story, our subconscious makes an agreement with the universe to fulfill this and it might sound sort of a little supernatural but I really believe that the universe wants us to create.
Film Courage: How does our subconscious factor into writing?
Alan: I believe that our subconscious is the seed of our genius. As I said earlier, genius is not a noun, it’s a verb. It’s something we all have access to. The story comes from your subconscious; it’s sort of like there’s stories in the atmosphere, in the zeitgeist. If you don’t grab that story that comes to you, how often do writers go Oh God, I had that idea! I should have written that. That was really good. That was a good idea. They’re all floating around up there in the ether. You’re either going to write it or somebody else is going to find their way to write it.
Film Courage: How does a writer tap into their own subconscious?
Alan: I’m teaching a process of connecting to your wild imagination, to story structure but what I’m really teaching is self-trust. Trusting yourself at the deepest level as an artist. Trusting that you’re not the author, you’re the channel.
I had sort of a life-changing experience where I realized that the story wasn’t coming from my conscious mind. That I couldn’t manufacture a story and that whenever I tried the writing, it was always mediocre. When you trust your subconscious and you tap into that place that’s beyond your sort of logical centers, the story comes alive in a way that is so surprising. That our job is to stay out of this magical, alchemical process that’s happening, just stay out of it. It’s almost like our job as artists is really to protect the channel so that the channel, so that the story, can come through you. When you do that what happens sometimes is…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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