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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- This Is That Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- On the Journey to Create -- What Do to with Those Ideas? -- So How is This Book Different? -- As You May Think -- References -- Chapter 2: Screenwriting and Creativity: From the Inside Out -- So, You Want to Write a Screenplay? -- The Nuts and Bolts of Screenwriting -- Screenwriting and Creativity: Secrets and Lies -- Creativity is out There! -- Creativity is in Here -- The C's of Creativity -- Working Out Your Creative Process -- The Creative Process -- What If? -- References |
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Chapter 3: How do Creatives Think? -- Where Do Ideas Come From? -- Getting an Idea -- As We May Think -- Getting New Ideas -- Getting It Together -- Retrofitting: Practice into Theory -- Where To from Here? -- What If? -- References -- Chapter 4: Your Creative Personal Identity: And What to Do About It -- Only You: Your Artistic Identity -- The Big 5: The Huge 2-What the Hell Are They Talking About? -- Understanding Your Creative Personal Identity -- Why Create? The Blinding Power of Intrinsic Motivation -- The Power of Emotion and Motivation -- Tapping into Emotion -- What If? -- References |
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Chapter 5: Finding the Lightbulb Moment: Inspiration and Envisioning -- Finding Inspiration -- The Creativity Maze -- A Room of One's Own -- Ritual and Reward -- Daydreaming, Dreaming, and Doing Automatic Tasks -- Creativity and the Unconscious -- Which Fish to Catch? -- As We May think ... To a Point -- Right Brain Go/Left Brain Stop: Intuitive Thinking -- Memory: Our Creative Well -- Taking a Moment -- What If? -- References -- Chapter 6: Catching the Big Fish: Research and Insight -- On the Road to Find Out -- What is Research? -- Learning from the Masters -- Doing the Hard Yards |
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Turning the Pages of Research -- Fishing for those Deep Fish: Idea Generation and Idea Evaluation -- Imagination and Imagining -- Eureka-I've got it! (And Before That) -- Insight: The Dramatic Center and Truth -- Finding the Lightbulb Moment -- What If? -- References -- Chapter 7: Writing and Flow. Just do it! -- Putting Words on the Page -- Finding Flow -- Being in the Zone -- Staying in the Zone -- To Structure or Not to Structure: That Is the Question -- Headlights and Stop Lights -- Grit and More Grit -- Dealing with Roadblocks -- A Little Quiet Please: The Place of Meditation and Mindfulness |
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Being More Mindful -- What If? -- References -- Chapter 8: It Could be More: Sharing and Shaping -- It Could Be More! -- Putting It Out There -- What Are We Looking For? -- Feedback. Good or Bad? -- It Could Be Still More -- Checking in on Metaphor and Meaning -- Testing the Emotional Rollercoaster -- Dealing the Cards of the Table Read -- What If? -- References -- Chapter 9: A Creative Thinking and Writing Tool. The Creativity Metacognitive Framework -- Creative Metacognition -- Thinking and Writing Like a Creative -- What If? -- References -- Chapter 10: Living a Creative Life. Be Bold! |
| Summary |
This is the book the screenwriting community has been waiting for. Skilfully combining creative practice with creativity research and innovative pedagogies, it fills a major gap in screenwriting scholarship. It serves as a best-practice model, appealing to writers of all types and career stages. Professor Craig Batty, Executive Dean (Creative), University of South Australia. In this book, Margaret McVeigh takes our hand to guide us through the process of being a creative screenwriter. She combines her expertise in screenwriting with the most recent advances in the psychology of creativity, sharing tools that all writers can use to construct creative and meaningful stories. Andreia Paula da Costa Valquaresma, Assistant Professor, University of Maia, Portugal. Reading Screenwriting from the Inside Out by Margaret McVeigh has been like falling in love. You dont know whats happening, but you are sure this is the way it has to be. By combining screenwriting, neuroscience and creativity the book enlightens not just the mind but also the heart. Reading it, you understand what it means for writers to write with the blood of their veins. Dr Carmen Sofia Brenes, Researcher, Chair, SRN (Screenwriting Research Network) 2018-20. This book provides aspiring screenwriters with a practical and informed way to learn how to think and write like a creative. It stands apart from, yet complements, other screenwriting how to books by connecting the transdisciplinary academic fields of screenwriting, film studies and cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Using a stepped approach, it shows the writer how to understand that how we think, shapes what we write, so that we may write better. Margaret McVeigh PhD is Head of Screenwriting and Contextual Studies at Griffith Film School, Griffith University, Australia. Margaret has successful industry experience in screenwriting, publishing and public relations. She is a recognized international expert in screenwriting and creativity and has run creativity workshops around the globe. Margarets passion is to enable the writer to use an integral knowledge of craft and creativity to tell inspiring and empowering stories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion picture authorship.
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Motion picture authorship
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031405204 |
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303140520X |
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