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Screenwriting from the inside out : think and write like a creative / Margaret McVeigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McVeigh, Margaret.
- Series:
- PALGRAVE PIVOT.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- This Is That Book
- Contents
- About the Author
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- On the Journey to Create
- What Do to with Those Ideas?
- So How is This Book Different?
- As You May Think
- References
- Chapter 2: Screenwriting and Creativity: From the Inside Out
- So, You Want to Write a Screenplay?
- The Nuts and Bolts of Screenwriting
- Screenwriting and Creativity: Secrets and Lies
- Creativity is out There!
- Creativity is in Here
- The C's of Creativity
- Working Out Your Creative Process
- The Creative Process
- What If?
- References
- Chapter 3: How do Creatives Think?
- Where Do Ideas Come From?
- Getting an Idea
- As We May Think
- Getting New Ideas
- Getting It Together
- Retrofitting: Practice into Theory
- Where To from Here?
- Chapter 4: Your Creative Personal Identity: And What to Do About It
- Only You: Your Artistic Identity
- The Big 5: The Huge 2-What the Hell Are They Talking About?
- Understanding Your Creative Personal Identity
- Why Create? The Blinding Power of Intrinsic Motivation
- The Power of Emotion and Motivation
- Tapping into Emotion
- Chapter 5: Finding the Lightbulb Moment: Inspiration and Envisioning
- Finding Inspiration
- The Creativity Maze
- A Room of One's Own
- Ritual and Reward
- Daydreaming, Dreaming, and Doing Automatic Tasks
- Creativity and the Unconscious
- Which Fish to Catch?
- As We May think ... To a Point
- Right Brain Go/Left Brain Stop: Intuitive Thinking
- Memory: Our Creative Well
- Taking a Moment
- Chapter 6: Catching the Big Fish: Research and Insight
- On the Road to Find Out
- What is Research?
- Learning from the Masters
- Doing the Hard Yards
- Turning the Pages of Research
- Fishing for those Deep Fish: Idea Generation and Idea Evaluation
- Imagination and Imagining
- Eureka-I've got it! (And Before That)
- Insight: The Dramatic Center and Truth
- Finding the Lightbulb Moment
- Chapter 7: Writing and Flow. Just do it!
- Putting Words on the Page
- Finding Flow
- Being in the Zone
- Staying in the Zone
- To Structure or Not to Structure: That Is the Question
- Headlights and Stop Lights
- Grit and More Grit
- Dealing with Roadblocks
- A Little Quiet Please: The Place of Meditation and Mindfulness
- Being More Mindful
- Chapter 8: It Could be More: Sharing and Shaping
- It Could Be More!
- Putting It Out There
- What Are We Looking For?
- Feedback. Good or Bad?
- It Could Be Still More
- Checking in on Metaphor and Meaning
- Testing the Emotional Rollercoaster
- Dealing the Cards of the Table Read
- Chapter 9: A Creative Thinking and Writing Tool. The Creativity Metacognitive Framework
- Creative Metacognition
- Thinking and Writing Like a Creative
- Chapter 10: Living a Creative Life. Be Bold!
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Unger Gasser Family Endowment for the Study of Screenwriting, Television and New Media.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- Print version: MCVEIGH, MARGARET. SCREENWRITING FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
- ISBN:
- 9783031405204
- 303140520X
- Publisher Number:
- 99995467837
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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