The Secret of Life Through Screenwriting
How to Use the Law of Attraction to Structure Your Screenplay, Create Characters, and Find Meaning in Your Script
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Since the beginning of time when human beings gathered around the campfire, stories were told to make sense of life. But what if stories were about more than that? What if they are about more than capturing and reflecting back to us the day-to-day grind? What if stories told us the secret of life? I am here to tell you that that’s exactly what they do, and as human beings evolve, our knowledge and wisdom of how to have a successful, a.k.a. happy, life evolves, too. And I’m not talking about the messages that you usually get in fairy tales and comic book movies like “follow your heart” and “believe in yourself” and “good always triumphs over evil.” I’m talking about an actual formula that if you follow it, will give you a life that you love and will make all your dreams come true. Over the last decade, the popularity of the New Thought concept, the law of attraction, has grown by leaps and bounds. The basics of the law of attraction are that like attracts like and that positive thoughts attract the right people, circumstances, and events to give you the life of your dreams—no matter who you are—as long as you understand how to master the law of attraction. To do that, you must first understand the three step process of how the law of attraction works—you must first ask, then you believe, and finally you receive. This also happens to be how a movie is structured—Act I: Ask; Act II: Believe; and Act III: Receive. As the years pass, Hollywood movies become more and more formulaic. Instead of giving you a formula, I am going to share a process, or approach, that will help you tell a meaningful story that will also help millions of people have happier more fulfilling lives and learn how to manifest their dreams by learning the secret of life from the movies they watch, which will come from the screenplays you write. Collective Consciousness Each of us has probably lived many lifetimes before. In these lifetimes we are different sexes, different races, and we have different lives where we learn numerous skills and distinct occupations that vary with each incarnation. Wikipedia describes collective consciousness as the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society. As mankind continues to incarnate, the collective consciousness also evolves. For example: Women were expected to stay home and raise the children since the beginning of time, but after several incarnations of women who did just that, the collective consciousness changed to reflect the idea that women wanted careers and a sense of their own identity, not just to raise children. As a screenwriter, you help shape the collective consciousness. The world continues to change, not only technologically, but how the very fibers of society and longstanding institutions, mores, and norms are woven together.
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Over the last decade or so, the concept of the law of attraction has become very popular, which is the secret to making all of your dreams come true. The law of attraction teaches how life really works and how to have happiness and easily manifest your dreams instead of struggling. Essentially, it teaches the secret of life, and with more and more people becoming aware of the law of attraction with each passing year and learning how to manifest their desires, the storytelling of screenwriters will need to change and adapt to reflect that transformation of humanity. With the book, “The Secret of Life Through Screenwriting,” the goal is to teach an approach to screenwriting that guides writers to be able to craft an original screenplay that adheres to industry standards, without being formulaic, and still satisfies the writer by being meaningful and inspiring while teaching the audience the secret of life through screenwriting, and without stating directly that it is the law of attraction at work in the lives of the characters.
About the Author
Joy Cheriel Brown is an accomplished screenwriter, with an MFA in creative writing from National University and a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, where she studied film and English and graduated summa cum laude. She has written many feature-length screenplays and received numerous accolades. Joy is the founder of Third Person Omniscient Productions, a production company whose mission it is to produce quality movies, plays, and television shows that enlighten audiences about the human condition and shed light on the meaning of life. She has served as a screenwriting mentor for the DC Shorts Filmmaking Mentor Series and a panelist for the screenwriting panel at the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council’s Festival of Literary Arts. Joy resides in Prince George’s County, Maryland.