#character channeling

[theweirdalthuplural]

yesterday when i walked into the bookstore i felt like all of these stories were calling to me at once like they werr begging for an occupation in my kind i hate that anxious feeling thats pries at my brain its like an unexplainable physical feeling, the desire to pick up the story and become one with it, its so powerful that i hav to hide in the store and makw physical distance with it, im not surr if i im insane or if thered any way for me to know. Im tired of spiritual entities from other universes just randomly dropping in, its scary. 🧠⚰️

[veracity24]

There is an important difference between being an audience and being a storyteller, and the screenwriter has to be both if s/he is to find the story that is trying to get itself 'born'. The storyteller must constantly strive to forget that the writer exists, somehow s/he must cultivate a divine unconsciousness in the act of becoming a medium for character and story, whereas the audience must do exactly the opposite and strive to become happily conscious of their emotional interest and involvement with the characters and the story they are enacting. Identification is everything.

Billy Marshall Stoneking

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[veracity24]

ENTERING THE DRAMA IS ABOUT ENTERING INTO AN EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHARACTERS

As the screenwriter's relationship with the characters in the script evolves, the writer will find him/herself forming relationships with characters that are seemingly extraneous to the script, namely the AUDIENCE and what I refer to as the TRIBE or TRIBES of the writer. These aren't characters in the strict sense of the word, but they aren't utterly different from them either. AUDIENCE and TRIBE are - like the characters in the story - imaginary entities grounded in or otherwise referencing the writer's experience and essential to the birth of the drama. The degree of their involvement or lack of involvement in the process significantly affects and influences the choices the writer makes, as well as determining the quality of the relationship the writer has with the characters in the story. These meta-characters and the writer's relationship with them provide illuminating and contrasting vantage points from which one can observe the action, and aid the writer in working as a medium for character and story.

- Billy Marshall Stoneking

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