CHANNELING YOUR PLOT

As a writer, novel, short story, screenplay, even the PLOT of a song lyric, don't be derivative. Trust the soul which is the big screen above the THIRD EYE. Do the channeling -- meaning you trance out, and ask higher self to show you the first scene of your film.

You may feel there's a film that has not been done. The TAKING OF LIBYA MOVIE, or The great ex chorus girl/ aging beauty movie. Your brain can come up with a plot but it'll be half assed. It'll be JACKIE SUSANN. A mixed bag: stupid blondes, smart ones. sentimental ones, wounded ones, greedy ones, angry ones. Kind of like the ex wives club movie.a mixed bag of classic women. ALL OF THEM DANCED, right?

But YOUR UNCONSCIOUS not only knows this territory, it has unconscious ideas, suspicions, knowledge. So maybe you give it a  WORKING TITLE (ONLY) The Glue Farm. (As in america, in our vernacular, that's where they send old horses.) Now ask your unconscious to show you the first scene.

SCREENPLAYS really are easiest form.
VISUALIZE it shot by shot.
ASK YOUR SOUL to show you what the first shot is.

GET BACK TO me on what your soul shows you. Then write it down, scribble in print, 'gals x doing x,here is x gal her, her this one, that one has daughter coming to visit, this other one has buried her married boyfriend today and is all alone.

THEN shut eyes, see second shot. See third. see fourth. Keep saying to yourself 'AND THEN?"
that triggers the supply line. Or say 'Yeah but what he don't know IS..." or what "SHE don't know is." Those are Billy Wilder's tricks. Found them in his BIO. That's how he proceeds along the 'envisioning' avenue.

Elaine Dundy (Ken Tynan's first wife,) dreamt up the DUD AVOCADO a classic fifty years ago among the yuppie girls.. THIS WAY : http://www.elainedundy.com/dud.html

Write your notes with a marker, scribble big  so that you don't come out of trance.
while you still remember what these scribbled notes mean,
record it in a file on PC. IN DIRECTORY entitled MY NOVEL IDEAS.
Or my script, or  C:\SCRIPTS.

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