Emotion and Your Movie Idea

By Don Vasicek

Emotion is defined in part by MERRIAM-WEBSTER as, "...any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, love, hate, etc...". What kind of emotion did you experience when your movie idea first popped into your head? Fear? Love? Hate? Joy? Sorrow? What happened to you that caused your movie idea to pop into your head? What single experience triggered an emotion in you that created your movie idea? By figuring this out, you will know what the emotion was, and why it was so powerful that it gave you an idea for a movie.

If you sort emotion and your movie idea out, you will find your passion for turning your movie idea into a screenplay. By identifying your passion, you will be able to tell if it is strong enough to sustain you through the arduous and challenging process of writing a screenplay, and eveything else that goes with it. And it will help you define the genre for your movie. Without going through this process, the potential exists for burning your brain up, destroying your heart and demolishing your life.

Writing screenplays demands that you have passion for what you are writing. Passion is the fire that drives you through this creative process. Passion makes your blood flow. Passion helps you get through obstacles of creation as you're writing your screenplay. It keeps you going when you dont want to keep going.

So, determine what your passion is for your movie idea. If you believe that it is strong enough to keep you motivated throughout the screenwriting process, then go for it.

Next time, Ill discuss how to write the logline, the next step in THE SCREENWRITERS SUCCESS FORMULA for your movie idea.