How The Best Writing Comes From The Subconscious - Alan Watt [Founder of L.A. Writers' Lab]
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- In this Film Courage video interview, Alan Watt explains how the best writing (screenwriting, prose, fiction, memoir) always comes from the subconscious mind.
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Alan Watt is an LA Times bestselling author and winner of France's Prix Printemps for best foreign novel. He is the writer/director of the feature film, Eddie, Kill the President. which won 4 Best Feature awards at US Film Festivals, and the Filmmaker Visionary award at The Boston Film Festival. He founded L.A. Writers' Lab in 2002 where he teaches his process of marrying the wildness of your imagination to the rigor of story structure in his online 90-Day workshops for novel, memoir and screenplay, to writers around the world. His book, The 90-Day Novel is a national bestseller and was Amazon's #1 book on writing for five months. He has taught his method everywhere from maximum security prisons to Stanford University. His students run the gamut from first-time writers to A-list screenwriters and Pulitzer prize-winning journalists. His motto is, start where you are, trust the process, and let the thrill of creation be your reward.
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What do you like about this video?
Nice emphasis on staying focused on the journey..🚗
Disturbing the reception.. luv that..
I appreciate his description of getting into that 'flow state'.
One thing that wasn't covered in this video (which perhaps is covered elsewhere in the interview?) Is the preparation that needs to be done before the flow state is possible (who are the characters, what is their dramatic need, what is the world they inhabit?)
It allows writers to gain insight from more experienced authors
We are the channel.... and Story finds us.
This is so true. Every single word. Trust yourselves and let the muses share their magic with you.
I've been telling people this for years - we're having a conversation with something - a muse, the subconscious, whatever you'd prefer to call it - and that's where great stories come from.
You're never not connected to your deeper self. Just be quiet and listen
This man always has sound advice. ❤
His approach to storytelling is really legendary in my opinion.
Most writers don’t succeed because they don’t write enough. I think that’s pretty true.
This is unquestionably true. The good stories arise from the depths and they appeal to us on that level - our depths.
Keeping the writing process a secret - Great advice!! Thanks for this.
" You're not the author. You're the channel."
Just how Adam was given the breath of life.
That’s such great advice regarding not talking about what you’re working on! It takes all the wind out for me every time I do this.
The part about telling your story out loud before you’ve committed it to paper? How “the air comes out of the balloon”? Very true.
Alan is trying to articulate experiences that are tricky to explain to people who haven’t lived it. I really appreciate him talking about writing on this level.
It’s also true that stories reveal their own structures. There are recurring patterns, sure. But every story wants to be its own thing.
Great interview, and some sage advice. Thank you for sharing 👍
And huge thanks for doing what you do, appreciate it.
Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
When one has tapped into the storyrealm using Alan Watt's process, there's no going back to the old plotting ways.
Keeping quiet with creative efforts of this nature helps one sustain the power to get to the finish line. Talking about it beforehand dissipates the power and loses the signal coming in.
This is another eye opener, validating mind manual for writers. Love this. I always feel better about myself when these topics are analyzed a bit more.
i don’t know. talking about my work, getting plot choices interrogated, having to explain the story in detail, discussing plot beats, helped me more than anything. i was often struck by inspiration just by telling the story orally.
That may be so, but if you’re not writing nothing else matters.
It's true, it's all true 😭. I've told it to everyone😭. It does feel like I've told it so many times, that it's not fresh anymore. You really do have to tell it to yourself. I'm recently learning how to connect with the subconscious.
This guy is right.
Interesting how people with name like ‘Alan Watt’ all connected to universe. I thought it was Alan watts lol😂 but I am satisfied with the content
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Great advise!
Yes i have experienced this before. I had a intro to film class and for my final exam I had to do a treatment. I told the story i was writing and ever since then i havent felt right to go back to finshing the story so i changed it until it was a whole different one. So yes, i regret telling the story for a exam, should had told a different one. Lesson learned.
Mistake of my writing life! You are so right.
Hemingway said telling people about your story is like squeezing the juice out of a lemon.
They not ready for this! I’ve had this happen sooo many times. Ideas from the universe. That’s why I develop all my ideas even if I don’t write them right away. I also feel the air go out when I talk about an idea and then have to sit down and write. 😂😂😂 it’s like I’ve seen it already.
What do I like? Contains some wonderful observed (inner) secrets of writing - and shows a great spirit! Thanks for sharing! :-)
Fabulous, it's really refreshing to hear Mr Watt's point of view on writing and the subconscious. Funnily enough, an area that is so often overlooked, yet so essential. Every time I've been advised to do something artificial or manufactured to please an audience or someone else, this is the counter argument.
This is exactly what I needed at this time. Thank you.
Great to hear!
I love this. Absolutely.
Talking diffuses the power and has an anesthetic effect.
Kieth Johnstone did fabulous exercises with actors tapping into dream states; through making offers that are either accepted or not. It gets to the point where the person or personality is astonished that the other seems to be reading their dreams. It’s very much collective.
It’s about finding a flow state. Allowing it. Knowing how to make flow state a daily habit.
Great guy!
This is crucial truth.
I'm actually scared of my own story. It's so much darker than I imagined it. Especially now after I drew the first comic chapter.
When I start to tell someone the story I’m writing that I suddenly discover something new. It’s like there’s some momentum that occurs that pushes me forward.
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Cool.
Is this the reason why when I approach writing consciously, as in trying to write a certain type of story based on interests and themes or what not, the initial motivation to write simply dries up after a short while? What I should try is not writing what I _want_ to write but more so paying attention to what needs to be said via the subconscious?
You know what? It's true. We as writers are simply too distracted by the idea of telling a story, of telling a point of view of certain things. We want so badly to take it out of our system that when we do, it's like we take some of its surprise factor, and we even ruin it for ourselves. I'm going to try to take this advice as much as possible and share my stories with the world just until they're ready to be shown.
Interesting
Very strange. It's exactly what I've been realising as I'm writing my first novel. It's alchemy. And I'm a pretty down to earth guy. Not spiritual or anything. But I really feel like the characters have a life of their own and the story is writing itself. I feel that it's more akin to a sculptor removing the wood to reveal a face in the timber grain than it is to putting words on paper.
It’s not the story. Okay maybe it is, but it’s the characters, and maybe the story is a character, and they all come alive from somewhere. When I’m in flow, the ride becomes magical.
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Huge fan of the channel, and this is another great interview, but his example about women not revealing a pregnancy in the first trimester is not correct. It's more to do with the risk of a miscarriage. This issue is more a topic for a different channel, unless someone is going to write a story on the silence that is imposed on would-be- mothers (and fathers) contending with the sometimes cruelty of nature.