House of Celebrations.

 After spending more than 18 years in the world filmmaking and writing. Working on  yet another story to be told through a viusal medium. Mid 30's. Gratitude to be  in a profession that makes life worth living, even though the process wants you too keep killing your self. Keeping my identity anonymus to be able to speak more freely. Working on your creation should be like making love not knowing the final outcome and still giving it all you have physcally and emotionally. 

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𝐓𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫

Practice, practice, PRACTICE, if you write once a week, or everyday, you get better and better!

If you want results, grab something you wrote a month ago and something you wrote recently, there will be a huge difference!

don’t spend your time comparing your writing to someone else’s, everyone’s writing style is different, be confident about your writing instead, don’t worry about someone else’s writing, worry about your own and how you can improve!

be open to advice and criticism, because chances are those are going to help you in the long run! And those people took the time to give you that advice, it’s all to help you become a better writer

read others writing and pay attention to their use of grammar and apply it your writing but do not copy their writing style

don’t hesitate to use the same subject fics others have done

readers love to read the same subject with different writing styles, they beg for it!

don’t write about subjects you aren’t familiar with

go to other blogs and ask for advice

look for inspiration EVERYWHERE

[houseofjalsa]

The perks of lunch Meetings.

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Is the draft ready.

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                    STOP TAKING YOUR SELF SO SERIOUSLY 

As creators there is always a tendency to start taking your self and your work way too seriously. Sometimes it is important to cut your self down to size and have a good time, yes were artists or claim to be, but in reality we are also doing a job, just like any accountant, waiter or HR manager. 

stop falling in love with the image of an artists and instead just be who you are, be a human being.

[recaption]

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                                               Addiction 

While talking to a friend of mine who’s profession is to professionally help people with their own thoughts, yes she happens to be a psychologist, we started to discuss her habit of smoking. 

She gave me a very interesting insight, i do not know the answer to it but would love to put it out there. According to her any kind of addiction works on two levels. 

Firstly the physical aspect e.g. Nicotine addiction in the case of smoking  

secondly the mental aspect e.g. the need for a cigarette created in-our minds even if the body is not craving a dose of nicotine. 

What she also mentioned was how any kind of addiction fills up a void that we have in our lives and we find solace or temporary solace in that addiction.  

My questions were  simple, 

1.how does one identify that void ? 

2. how does on replace the addiction with something that leads to a more positive outcome ? 

She said if the answer’s were so simple she would be out of a job.....

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[understands]

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Emotion over Craft. As long as we feel an emotion, the audience is willing to forgive all technical glitches. Thats is something as filmmakers we must understand. We are all serving an emotion that we are attempting to create. The actor, Cinematographer, costume designer and all other members are all serving the inherent need to bring out an emotion, if we cannot create the emotion we have failed in doing right by our job, irrespective of the beautiful costume, camera work or set design. I think of it as a sun set. If a cloud covers the sun just before sun set, the beauty is lost no matter how picturesque the location but if the sun is seen then the birds, clouds trees all other aspects just compliment the moment making the sunset even more beautiful.

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[houseofjalsa]

When you finish writing you final draft and look at what lies ahead before your film releases. 

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You think I'm gonna skip out on fishing just because my back hurts like hell? You are a fool and not a fisherman

[houseofjalsa]

You think I’m gonna skip out on writing just because my mind hurts like hell? You are a fool and not a writer. 

[recaption]

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                                THE HABBIT OF SELF-DESTRUCTION 

What is essential for the creation is a certain about of destruction, sometimes internal and sometimes external. Mostly we try to destroy the old beliefs of characters to reach newer avatar’s and realisations. 

The question that remains is what about the creators process as he moves from one film or book to another. We have a tendency to start playing safe, as we want to re create the magic of the previous successful film or book again but that is what defeats the purpose of creation and creating. It reminds me of Stephen Hawking who would create theories and then go ahead to destroy his own theories to create newer ones. 

There is so much to learn from this process of destroying to create newer ideas based on ones already created. 

[houseofjalsa]

Akira Kurosawa's great advice to aspiring filmmakers

Akira Kurosawa's great advice to aspiring filmmakers.

So true. 

so simple. 

[understands]

[houseofjalsa]

                                                       MOOD

This pictures captures mood so beautifully, Its the kind of image that does not require dialogue to express what a character is going through.

A week after the death of the door man who worked at Danielles multi million dollar company. She is about to leave for work when she stops and looks at the mess and then looks out of the window. 

She is not feeling like her self anymore, especially when she saw the new doorman yesterday. Something changed.  

 Is there something festering in her while the world outside still moves on, ruthlessly, beautifully while we are part of it yet something within us is darkened by the light outside.  

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NaNo Prep: Outline Your Story Like a Subway Map

We’re deep into NaNo Prep Season, and this week, we’ve asked participants to share their thoughts on how to craft great plots and build immersive worlds. Today, author and entrepreneur Gabriela Pereira shares her method of mapping out her story:

As a New Yorker born and raised, I think of an outline as being like a subway map. What I love about this approach is that it allows you to see how the various threads of your story work together, but you can also tease those elements apart and look at them individually to see how each thread holds up on its own.

When you make a subway map outline, each line represents a different subplot or story element you want to track. The dots (or stops) represent scenes in your story. Some scenes are like local stops on a subway and apply only to one story thread, while other scenes are like express stops and represent intersections between the story threads and mark key moments in your story. For an example of this technique in action, check out the subway map of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.

Want to learn how to put together a story map like this? Here’s a step-by-step guide.

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