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Lifted: Of Gods and Thieves (Paperback)
Shawn Pryor, Keith Cunningham, Chris Murrin; Artworks by John Rodriguez, Uko Smith
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Sara Jackson is no common thief-for-hire. She uses her limited
teleportation abilities to "acquire" art and artifacts for clients.
With the help of her older brother Max and their tech-savvy friend
Claudette, Sara must gather a trio of ancient Egyptian relics, but
these three apparently easy heists turn out to have both hidden
dangers and cosmic consequences.
Uniquely inspired by the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell and
psychologist Jean Houston, The Soul of Screenwriting demonstrates
how the "screenwriting by numbers" approach that offers templates
into which the writer may mechanically drop his or her story idea
is fundamentally incomplete. Keith Cunningham maintains that in
doing so, one ignores the process of writing. Screenwriting is a
long journey and even the most gifted screenwriters get lost along
the way. Getting lost, Cunningham reminds us, is part of the
process too. What the writer experiences in the act of writing has
never been taken into account, yet this is where the screenplay
comes from: the writer's here-and-now experience while working on
the story. Information--left-brain concepts and techniques about
plot structure, character development and orchestration, the
dynamics of scenes and sequences--is all necessary. But it is what
one does with the information that makes a truly great screenplay.
In The Soul of Screenwriting, Cunningham demonstrates that good
screenwriting is more than hitting the big "plot points" with
exciting action. Good screenwriting also has integrity and
authenticity. It has a "voice," and because it has a voice it
speaks to the audience. To gain a voice, the writer needs the heat
of creative imagination: passion, commitment, enthusiasm, a drive
to know the truth of the characters, and an urge to get to the core
of the dramatic conflict without resorting to escapism. These are
qualities of the heart, and as Cunningham argues, screenwriting can
indeed be, in Carlos Castaneda's phrase, a path with heart.
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