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Film Courage: You say there are two things writers need to know if they want to write a screenplay: the first one is you’ll need to know what you want to write and you’ll need to know how to write it?
Viki King, Author and Film Consultant: Yeah, don’t you think?
Film Courage: If we start with number one, how does a writer know what they want to write?
Viki: That’s what I’m saying about you have to be in good conversational relationship to your own self. What’s going on in you? What I mean, did you really want to write the Rambo 12? Was that thrilling to you and exciting or what?
Always, always, always it’s what’s going on in your life right now. In fact many screenplays have different stages and phases of how we progress through a process, through a life framework, time. So look to see what’s going on for you like for instance:
-In a film, the character is looking at circumstance outside themselves
-They’re feeling powerless to it
–Then the issue comes up. “Well, we’ve got to do something about it because it’s untenable, they can’t stay in that situation anymore.”
–Then they maybe start inroads into they’re scared but they start making some changes (the next and the next).
All these progressions are in a screenplay. Well, look to your own life, what’s going on in your life now? Some people are at a place where they’re looking at external circumstances and they’re fearful or blocked or powerless around them. That’s where you start your story.
Or if you are at a stage that you are starting to branch out and finding new parts of yourself and you’re wanting to try those out and you’re being brave and you’re at the superhero aspect of yourself…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Best-selling author and film consultant Viki King is a leading advisor to luminaries in the entertainment industry. Known for her warmth, and humor she appears often on CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC, as well as in hundreds of radio interviews. She has quick, insightful answers for people’s everyday dilemmas.
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