Jiří Charvát

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You’ve found your story because you’ve allowed yourself to think the unthinkable. In storytelling, logic is retroactive. In story, unlike life, you can always go back and fix it. You can set up what may seem absurd and make it rational. Reasoning is secondary and postcreativity. Primary and preconditional to everything else is imagination—the willingness to think any crazy idea, to let images that may or may not make sense find their way to you. Nine out of ten will be useless. Yet one illogical idea may put butterflies in your belly, a flutter that’s telling you something wonderful is hidden ...more
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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