Story Is A Search For Meaning - Alan Watt [Founder of L.A. Writers' Lab]

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In this Film Courage video we ask Alan Watt his thoughts on truth in a story, work of fiction, screenplay, and more.
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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[@filmcourage]

Are you terrified to tell your truth on the page?

[@GhibliNova]

Historically he's wrong. For all of human history, story telling has been a delivery device for teaching. The modern movement of stories becoming this search for truth and meaning is what leads to stories being devoid of meaning. The most successful stories, whether theyre books, or movies, are the ones that have lessons in them that resonate with everyone. Lord of The Rings teaches the value of optimism and innocence and the insatiability of lust. George Lucas Star wars teaches how good men fall, how great nations collapse, and the importance of living by the spirit of the law as opposed to the letter of the law, and how optimism is so powerful it can even redeem the fallen. Theme and truth are in there but they are a byproduct of the purpose of the stories; to teach. The movies that are unsuccessful are always statements of what writers think, which is what happens when you strive for truth, you get stories that say 1+1=2. It's true, but it doesn't have any resonance. For a story to be successful, you have to aim to teach. What ever it is. If you do that, it will force you to create scenarios and obstacles that will teach your character the lesson you are trying to get across, the audience will then learn these alongside your character as your character goes through the learning process. If you do that well. You will end up with a story full of meaning, truth, and thematic bliss, but they are byproducts
And for his example of Lady Bird, the lesson is that it isn't always a bad thing to go back to where you come from. Everything he speaks about comes as byproducts of that lesson being told.

[@danielleceleste4791]

Yes

[@himwiththehair8118]

Totally

[@daledearing4399]

Alan Watt makes such sense; my 1st novel is very clear now, and I'm through draft 1 and on draft 2. Thank you!

[@jpgreer]

There goes Alan Watt with story wisdom once again. His books on novel and screenplay were game changers for me. Simple yet profound stuff. Great Film Courage interview questions as well (as always). Thanks, y’all.

[@themonkwhisper]

Particularly, Why does Alan watt videos makes most sense of others?

[@FabledEnd]

I think it resignates for you because he speaks to people who write for the system. He's inviting us to all write for ourselves, that's huge. I'd look at why the things Allan says has so much meaning for you. Digest it. And wrote from it. Correct me if I'm wrong

[@maiden_america]

Thank you for this video. The “limiting belief”…, let it go through love and in the absence of shame … well said.

[@FlyingOverTr0ut]

Great discussion from Watt, as usual.

[@alexor081]

🎉🎉🎉

[@vanessanesener4028]

🌹

[@starwing2814]

5:03 resonated with me because I have the same story idea haunting me for years, I haven't been able to successfully start it, I've been stuck. I think I am subconsciously afraid of telling the truth on the page, I try to understand it and try to dig deeper but it's been hard. Lol my subconscious is telling me something 😂.

[@jayrhone2881]

Where can I find the full interview?

[@filmcourage]

Hi Jay, we are still working on this interview. Hopefully coming soon. Here is everything we have published with Alan thus far - bit.ly/2DXA6Yx