Creative Integration For Screenwriters - Turning Weaknesses Into Strengths by Corey Mandell

[@KimTownsel]

Clear and concise. I appreciate how he gives information because he doesn't sound angry or authoritative; he is honest and helpful.

[@TheRealOtakuEdits]

I'd say I'm an intuitive writer. My characters keep changing as I find out more about them and I get emotional whenever I keep rediscovering their backstory and seeing the decisions they make with each scenario they find themselves in. The only problem is that I can't seem to get them from point A to B in an interesting way.

[@howardkoor2796]

OtakuEdits set them on a journey with a goal.. see what happens.

[@gavinhebert27]

i love the way he speaks of the development of storytelling. he really treats it like a muscle you can build and it’s so encouraging

[@afrosymphony8207]

OMG!!!! this is GOLD!.... just found out i am a conceptual type and it made me evaluate my ideas in a very honest way. my characters arent compelling enough because i dont care about them, its just always all about my crazy idea thats what they are there to tell nothing else lool wooow so interesting. this was amazing thank you so much

[@MADDMOODY516]

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[@filmsofgilbert]

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[@MIRI_AMMA_HERO_VA]

Me for More of THIS!! Thanks, Miri 🐮🍀🎶💗

[@katecosettevocals]

I’ve taken his classes, he is AMAZING. Look no further for the most incredible writing teacher. I’m so glad to have learned from him!

[@sophie00sunshine]

Love those interviews with Corey Mandell, he really knows what he's talking about

[@PAKKAP]

This was a nice watch. Thank you. It put an explanation into a lot of confusion I always have.

[@storyiseverything2219]

For me the story comes first. I then create the characters to fit the story that I want to tell.

[@jonathanstewart351]

Write from your heart, edit from your brain. Got it!

[@YourLBN]

I am saving up my coins to attend his workshops, all of them because this man is just making all the dots connect for me right now!

[@filmcourage]

Cool. Keep us posted.

[@nicholasalexander2594]

This channel is awesome!!! Thanks for giving help and advice to be better at the craft!!!!

[@larkmacallan4257]

mind blowing. I'm conceptual type. Working on this as I speak. Damn, thank you.

[@shethewriter]

This is SO TRUE! I’m an intutive type and I always wondered how I can have so many years of experience and still feel like my plots and conflicts aren’t as tight as I want them to be. Any conceptual writers here have any advice?

[@callmesyr]

I seriously felt understood as a writer like never before. Thank you!

[@chrismhp]

Very good insight. Simple breakdown, but very powerful way of looking at writing. I have to say I'm stuck somewhere in the middle, with a lean toward the conceptual side. I also think this can change depending on what story is being written. I'm a more conceptual writer on certain stories and more intuitive on others. The writing process is more or less a back-and-forth between conceptual and intuitive writing for me. This is also probably why I take a very long time with writing, because both these parts of the brain need their limelight. It's usually a struggle of making the intuitive elements work into the conceptual ones. I'd say the 'creation' of the story is very intuitive-minded, whereas the 'crafting' of the story is conceptual-minded. I need to find both the right characters and the right themes/ideas, then work at it until they compliment one another. i.e. finding a balance between what excites me conceptually, and what moves me emotionally. Sometimes they are the same thing, and that's when you have something special...usually this is the heart of the entire story (the marriage of the big thematic ideas with the emotional drive of the characters). So I start with a conceptual basis, then explore and search for the emotionality within that. Once I have a truly strong, emotional connection, then I work on the structure and how they can fit together. Being emotionally engaged with the characters is as important to me as the conceptual structure and ideas of the story. When you have compelling characters with equally compelling themes, is when you get those powerful stories that we all crave.

[@JeanAriaMouy]

Great and very interesting analysis !

[@violetta9256]

Thank you! It's brilliant and really on time for me. I'm a mix of both. Sometimes I'm very conceptual and fixed on logic, so I literally "tell" my characters who they are and what they're going to do next to unfold the story. Other times I just hear deep inside the voice of my character who narrates me His story and I really don't know where it goes and how it will end. So it's like an adventure I follow with my character.

[@buttkissery2k]

Best advice ever! Thank you so much 💯

[@StayFractalesque]

dang, this channel is 🔥🔥🔥

[@BusterDarcy]

Cory is far and away my favourite voice in screenwriting

[@GaryKlineCA]

Thank you, this validates the approach I'm trying out . I'm a conceptual person as well. When I'm thinking up what the story will be about, I come up with both the overall inner journey and the outer journey of the characters. This not only helps me plot out the story, but also helps me design the characters so the action comes out of who they are at their core. The characters develop and change a bit as I'm writing and revising, but the story action doesn't change much because the characters are still basically the same as when I started.

[@coloaten6682]

Another great video! Watching this and thinking about it I feel as if I'm a little of both. I love the conceptual part but also enjoy the emotional bits too. I love to come up with great story ideas and then apply emotions to the characters and allow them to tell the story. Perhaps another way of explaining what Corey is saying is that writing is both head and heart. The head should be used to design the story and the heart should be used to tell it. Of course the trick is being able to switch from one to the other at the correct time, but not completely letting go of either.

[@joshallanfilmandmusic]

Great video. As he was describing the intuitive type that definitely sounded like my approach towards writing. I enjoy character, realism emotion etc. and have a low tolerance for gimmicky ideas/execution, but maybe need to work on constructing more compelling narratives.

[@moniquevamado]

I think it's possible to be both.

[@dom19945]

Monique Amado Life Coach & Artist It definitely is. There's tons of writers throughout history who do both. The goal should be to create something novel through the characters. Nobody cares if a writer constructs a plot that has never been done before-people want to see characters that haven't been created before, like a real person. But you still need stuff to happen to "see what the character is made of." Slaughterhouse Five is a great example of this.

[@TheKeithvidz]

I just put myself so on this video.

[@JN-ox2yd]

It's actually required that you *are* both in order to be successful, is what he's saying. You need the integration of authentic characters and strong story design, where the characters behave organically yet also behave in a way that allows for the strongest possible story structure.

[@Cooltubeification]

I would definitely say I have the wiring for both, but I'd probably say I lean more to being a conceptual writer. I love some of my characters but I'm not sure that other people would.

[@ShoehatProductions]

I think I’m somehow both... or perhaps I was conceptual when I was younger but am now intuitive.

[@johnluujl]

Interesting. I would've said that I'm an intuitive writer - I do it the way I like it to be. But because I'm a mind person I end up being this mixture and also writing this mixture between both because I am also thinking about everything in my everyday life.

[@Sandra-hc4vo]

This was extremely interesting. I have been listening to a lot of speakers and this one felt like it really got to the heart of a very major thing.. I think I am mainly intuitive, like most of the time I write what feels right. But I also outline now. And sometimes the story seems fine, but I don't feel I know the characters well enough. So for me it feels like I see saw to one issue and then the other.

[@JN-ox2yd]

Most gurus focus on product. Corey focuses on how process creates product.

[@PomaCityProductions]

I believe I am a bit of both to be honest!

[@ShaneJoshua1980]

VXSIONVRY ENTERTAINMENT Me too!

[@MADDMOODY516]

me too leaning to the concept side

[@allinthemind2006]

I never hear a solution. how does a conceptual writer work on the intuitive side,

[@JonAddisonFilms]

It's funny hearing this against Michael Hauge's advise. Obviously Hauge implies strongly a certain structure is close to necessary for a film to work whereas here it's much more be free, write free. I think personally, as a beginning writer I'd stick to Hauge's advise until I'm a tad more established and comfortable with story and most importantly the pacing of it.

[@JonAddisonFilms]

Actually, I see what he's saying now. It's all a balancing act. Get that structure and plot sorted but just don't go overboard.

[@JN-ox2yd]

@@JonAddisonFilms He's talking about organic story structure where the structure is custom designed to tell the most compelling story possible given your story objectives and characters, as opposed to forcing your story to hit certain beats which almost always end up feeling inorganic.

[@MzDollyAwesome]

I'm definitely a conceptual writer

[@TheKeithvidz]

I plot most stories then write. Design? Guess I am conceptual - interesting ideas and intellectual - characterize my people so not bland. Terminator 1 had a sci fi premise but had a love story.

[@Erintel]

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[@firstlast-oo1he]

I disagree with the notion that you're either one or the other. I'm both. I come up with a really unique, exciting idea (worthy of the big screen), but when I start developing characters, it's impossible for me NOT to feel for them or have a deep emotional connection with them. I'm a high-concept kind of writer, but I've never had anyone tell me my characters were flat or uninteresting.

[@grimscriven]

For anyone just watching this segment of the interview and wonder how to do this, his solution and how he works with students to this is the previous video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6SWZmCbfrR4pKs