Successful use of the following products requires that you have bought, read, understood and accepted the principles and terminology of the Hero's Journey / Transformation as contained in: The Complete Hero's Journey...more than 510 stages of the journey you need to know about.
There are two contrary arguments: a) time pressure stimulates creativity and b) time pressure reduces creativity. Both are true.
There are a number of forces at work:
Time pressure increases creative output. By forcing idea production, setting goals and incremental deadlines, a greater number of ideas are produced than if a “do your best” approach is taken. If a leader asks participants in an idea generating session to address a problem and think of at least 5 ideas every half an hour, then 80 ideas are produced by one individual and 1600 are produced by 20 individuals at the end of an average working day. This level of output is conscious and would not be produced normally.
Time pressure encourages prolific production and therefore the probability of generating good ideas increases. It can be said with great confidence that quality of output is closely related to quantity. The best single creative product tends to appear at that point in the career when the creator is being most prolific.
Forcing output pushes individuals along the experience curve, refines their methodology, builds competencies and knowledge and improves performance. Screenwriters know that they are likely to produce more, better quality work faster if they set themselves a schedule of a certain number of pages per day.
Motivation is critical to creativity. If a person is intrinsically motivated, time pressure may be a synergistic extrinsic motivator. If the person is not intrinsically motivated then it may turn out to be a non-synergistic extrinsic motivator, which reduces the level of engagement in the endeavour.
Short-term time pressure can be negative in that it does not allow the mind to engage in the endeavour at various cognitive levels. It does not allow rich ideas to formulate through the process of incubation . Intrinsically motivated individuals will benefit from short term time pressure and goals (sets cognitive forces in motion) and will generate richer ideas through incubation over the longer term.
We are using time pressure to force output and create that words-on-paper first draft. By giving yourself deadlines and targets, you will be more effective than "waiting for inspiration," or following a "do your best approach" (witness the untold number of unfinished screenplays).
You will be guided through the Journey, Transformation, Detachment and Attachment process with daily prompts (one detailed email per day).
You can complete the words-on-paper first draft in a shorter time (Joe Eszterhas allegedly wrote Basic Instinct (1992) in 13 days), however, as clients have varying motivation levels, we have distributed the daily tasks over a more reasonable 31 days.
[You can complete the the words-on-paper first draft in 31 days simply by following The Complete Hero's Journey...more than 510 stages of the journey you need to know about, the Advanced Archetypes, the fantastic Detachment, Attachment & Liberation Theory and the equally excellent New Self Template - buy these materials and start writing; if after three months you haven't completed your screenplay then you need this service].
After you make a payment, you will begin receiving one email per day, starting the following day, for 31 days.
Each email will contain a number of instructions that you must follow. If you miss a day you will fall behind and likely not catch up.
Each email incrementally helps you to unfold your idea into a story according to The Complete Hero's Journey...more than 510 stages of the journey you need to know about.
Each email requires that you write at least four pages a day. 31 x 4 = 124 pages. As each email presents several critical elements of the Hero's Journey and Transformation, you will likely write more than 4 pages on most days. You need 120 pages (You will have to edit down during the second and third drafts.).
If you focus on this for 31 days, it will be done.
Before you click the PayPal button below to buy into our 31 day screenwriting course, read the following:
a) Make sure that you have bought, read, understood and accepted the principles and terminology of the Hero's Journey / Transformation as contained in: The Complete Hero's Journey...more than 510 stages of the journey you need to know about.
b) Make sure that you have bought, read, understood and accepted the principles and terminology of the Complete and Advanced Archetypes
c) Ensure that you can commit. This involves daily focus for 31 days. Understand that if you bail out half-way, that's your problem. We do not offer refunds.
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