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New spiritual film Being in Heaven now in cinemas!

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:12:16 +0000

My first feature film I have written and directed is a spiritual themed drama titled ‘Being in Heaven’.

The film was released on January 28th and is currently in cinemas in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane at Palace Cinemas.

If you would like to learn more about this spiritual film and see the trailer, please go to: http://www.beinginheaven.com.au

How to create yourself into a successful writer! Part 3

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:39:16 +0000

In the story industry, many writers wonder why, as well as complain, that they cannot sell their work. This is because what they have written reflects the state of their minds. They need to upgrade their minds and their stories will then become more and more saleable.

Your mind, of course, is remarkably easy to change. It is a plastic, mouldable substance that responds immediately to new instructions. In fact the most extraordinary quality of your mind is just how quickly it responds.

It also has the many higher faculties of the superconscious, which you can access with simple techniques, and so encourage brilliant and unique stories to come into your consciousness.

The superconscious can create utterly brilliant and original works that will have publishers and producers enter into frantic bidding wars, waving cheques of six and seven figure sums, to secure your story.

How to create yourself into a successful writer! Part 2

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:55:59 +0000

Writing is an expression of your own mind. People read and view stories with their minds. Therefore, if you wish to be successful, you have to turn your attention to your own mind, so you can upgrade its functioning and so influence and inspire the minds of your audience.

Your mind has four levels. The unconscious, the subconscious, the conscious and the superconscious.

The unconscious is the intelligence governing the organic functioning of your body. The subconscious is your personal memories. The conscious is the everyday chatter of familiar thoughts as well as the logical and rational faculties. The superconscious is the source of inspiration, intuition, higher intelligence and genius. It is also the abode of the Mythopoetica, which is the faculty that creates dreams and all great stories.

Most people’s superconsciousness is drowned by the activities of their conscious and subconscious mind. They are on automatic, playing out the patterns that were inserted into them during their childhood. Many even have no idea whatsoever what their mind is, and how it operates.

This is unfortunate because it is their mind that creates their life through the choices they make.

For a writer, it is also their mind that creates their stories. The more pedestrian the mind, the more ordinary the story, and the less attractive it is to an audience.

How to create yourself into a successful writer! Part 1

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:38:39 +0000

Definitions:

Creating Yourself -
To deliberately and consciously change your behaviours and actions, to enable you to move your life forward in any way you desire.

Successful Writer -
To have large numbers of individuals believe you have something to offer them and so purchase your work.

My next blog will show you how to do it!

The last activity when preparing your story

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:18:30 +0000

To paraphrase Alfred Hitchcock: ‘First we write the screenplay and then we add the dialogue’. Many people begin to write their scripts or novels by immediately starting writing the characters speaking to each other. A story is something that is built from a variety of elements, just like a house is built from a variety of construction materials. The elements are called your structural principles. These must be mastered before you can write any story that will hold the attention of your audience.

Making millions from your writing

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:21:46 +0000

In Hollywood, there are often several writers on a screenplay. There is also a huge churn rate on a single script, where writer after writer tries to make it work. Each of them is paid tens of thousands of dollars to contribute, which is why scripts can cost hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. In the end usually only three of these names appear on the credits of the film.

I had a friend who worked on a film with an A list star, and in the end only one line of dialogue of his remained in the film. But he still got a credit as one of the writers! He was able to use this credit to constantly work in Hollywood for thirty years, earning over a million dollars a year writing and rewriting scripts, none of which ever got made! This is a very common story in Hollywood.