Screenwriting from the Inside Out by Margaret McVeigh

Author:Margaret McVeigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031405204
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Taking a Moment

While the brief of this book is not to give you a lesson in neuroscience (you can look up all the research if you want to find out the Latin names of the brain that are involved in the processes above), the aim is to help you understand that seeking inspiration is a complex (but fun) process, and it deserves attention and work to get the best ideas upon which to build your story. In Chap. 3, we briefly considered how new ideas are generated. In this chapter, we have been delving a little more into the scientific research mentioned in terms of a specific stage of the creative process—Inspiration and Envisioning. As I have said so many times already (sorry but this is new research): I believe we can understand why we need to do certain things at certain times and why, for example, after we have had a solid session of working on idea generation, we can feel really tired (and happy), or why we might find it handy to seemingly switch off for a moment and go for a walk or hang out the washing or perhaps listen to that meditation app.

So now we will go to the next chapter, where we talk a little more about making that brain work around a specific idea or theme or intuition after you have found insight. While cognitive psychology and neuroscientific research refer to this search for new ideas via the processes of divergent and convergent thinking, as “problem-solving” (I don’t agree with this as I feel the word problem has negative connotations and I prefer to use a more positive expression), it nonetheless gives us understanding as we will see in the next chapter.

But let’s take a break first and try one of the exercises below to switch on that right brain (if this concept works for you) or to tap into random inspirations for your creative work.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.