@Inuke has been writing 11 days in a row ( 8 days when we recorded this chat ) and I was curious about his motivation for daily writing. I wanted to know how he felt about it and what effect the daily writing has had on him so far.
I decided to leave out quite a lot of the one hour and twenty minute talk that we had but - as I found a lot of it worth sharing - I stil ended up with enough material for two posts.
This twenty minute segment mainly deals with the theme of writing and screenwriting.
Although I transcribed the last audio post Unfinished Stories - Let's Talk about Depression, I dediced not to do so this time, as transcribing 20 minutes of talking, would only make me end up with RSI. So, please listen to this post instead. If the listening does not seem to work, try using another browser. It works fine in Opera and Chrome.
I left in a couple of laughs, around 3min45, because it reminded me of Beavis and Butthead. To be honest, I left lots of laughs in the edit, to compensate for our last talk about depression. Just kidding. It's just how Inuke and I roll :>)
I jokingly refer to One Punch Man, which is an awesome anime show that can be found here: (https://www.watchcartoononline.io/anime/one-punch-man-english-subbed
He starts out by referring to a story that he wrote a while ago called “It Sucks To Be You”. It can be found here:
Part 1
(https://steemit.com/creativity/@inuke/it-sucks-to-be-you-episode-ii-short-story-by-inuke)
A couple of minutes in this clip, I refer to the 'characters staying in the car', as I remember Inuke using that metaphor when he was referring to the point in the story where he was stuck in a recent ( unrecorded ) talk with me
Around 4 minutes in, I start talkng about a writing contest that Inuke is trying to revive. It had been running for a couple of months, last year. Three months ago, he tried to kickstart it – after a 5 month hiatus - but without much luck. This week, he gave it another try. You cand find the most recent challenge here: Story Writing Challenge
Then we start talking about motivation and in particular motivating others.
And after some small talk, Inuke asks me a question:
> If you get a chance to create a character, how do you do it?
For your information: I studied film and have been writing screenplays for quite some time. I love to break the rules though and do not necessarily follow them. Nor do I things in a much structured way. In other words, this wasn't an easy question to answer...
I then start talking about writing a backstory for your characters and we start discussing action versus reaction. Soon after, I come up with some other, more or less helpful tips, about how I think I create characters/ write stories.
Inuke admits he hadn't heard about backstories and has never used those so far.
Which makes me ask him the following:
> How he's able to come up with all this ( realistic ) dialogue between characters, without using any backstory?
I start about screenwriting again and Inuke and I continue talking about writing dialogue. At 15:30 Inuke talks about a dinner table scene. Here, he refers to a story that he wrote, called 'The Aftermath: You can find the dinner table scene episode here The Aftermath – The Dinner Table. If you want to read all 5 parts of this series, here's Part 5 – The Aftermath – Final Episode, with a link to the previous 4 write ups.
Near the end of this clip, we start talking about the point ( in time ) where we tend to start a story. Because of that - and to stay true to my 'Unfinished Stories' theme - I decided to end this fragment here.
To be more precise, I end it when Inuke starts talking about Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, saying:
> Hands on Quentin Tarantino is one of the greatest ever...
There the film snob in me is awoken.
In my next audio post, you will learn about the continuation of this chat. My opinion on ( the work of ) Quentin Tarantino and a long chat, where Inuke and I compare our memories regarding our first viewing of Jurassic Park, back in 1993/ 1994.
TO BE CONTINUED
The cover image is a drawing made by me when I was 6.5 ( a little over 3 decades ago )
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