Embracing the Hero Within: “Scriptwriting”Your Epic Life
Movie scriptwriters hold the principles that explain and transform your “existential script”
Did you watch a great movie this week that left you encouraged and energized? Sitting in a theater or on the couch, I’ll bet you spent a couple of hours watching characters interact and conflict and, hopefully, resolve those conflicts to lead to a better ending.
That’s the script/story-writing formula: Three acts that introduce, challenge, and redeem the characters. We leave the theater ready to tackle the world when the story is done right.
Often, today’s movies fail to follow this trajectory. Have you ever left the theater and thought, “What was that about?” It leads to films with less hope. In the theater, we’re out twenty bucks.
In life, it’s more tragic.
Let’s delve into the art of becoming the hero, the central character, in your life story. By embracing the principles of excellent story writing, you can take charge of your narrative and shape it to your liking.
I spent a decade in the scriptwriting world pouring into scripts and books on scripts. According to script and story-writing teachers like Robert McKee or insightful story philosophers…
