MOTIVATING CHANGE

The writing of a compelling dramatic story is always a transformative experience in that It ultimately transports the storyteller into a view of the world that is multi-perspectional (my term), where the storyteller confronts and empathises with the needs, desires and fears of a number of diverse and often conflicting characters and perspectives. The finding of a story involves a certain type of resiliency by virtue of which there is the possibility of liberating yourself from an artificially precise and confined ego. When you experience, develop and live inside a story-world that is founded on accepting and understanding the differences rather than anxiously asserting the identities of the characters, you edge closer to the truth that stands within and behind every story worth telling - love.

ATTENTION SYDNEYSIDERS - WRITERS & ACTORS & FILMMAKERS

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Expressions of interest now being accepted for 2015. The Writers' Studio commences in early February 2015 at Randwick TAFE.  Studio conducted by Billy Marshall Stoneking & Bernie Zelvis

ENDINGS

For the writer that cares, finding a dramatic resolution to a story can take you into nervous-breakdown territory. If the end of your screenplay is too pat, it can trivialise the complexity you’ve set in motion - if, indeed, there is any complexity at all. And yet the art of plot necessarily requires a apt resolution, even when the underlying human questions and frustrations are unresolvable. Often, what you are dumbly searching for is an illuminating tension between the "right" ending and the impossibility of tying anything up in a neat bow. Freud reminds us that, in analysing a dream, "if an uncertainty can be resolved into an either/or, we must replace it for the purposes of interpretation with an and.” This is what I have some times referred to as "the recontextualisation of the problem". What’s interesting about switching the conjunctions is that it often produces some other, third way, and frees up the secret desire latent in the actions of the characters.

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