Voice Dialogue Tips

Voice Dialogue Tips

February 2009

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Dear Joyce,

Welcome to the Voice Dialogue Tips. This month's article is titled:

Using Subpersonalities in Successful Story and Film Script Writing By Michael Domeyko Rowland


Michael Domeyko Rowland is the director and presenter of the 12 part Voice Dialogue Video Series and author of the Screen Story Writing System. I have had many requests for his view on subpersonalities and their place in writing films and books. So I thought I'd send his article out this month, and follow with a continuation of Hal & Sidra's series of articles titled "The Top Ten Challenges to Relationship".

Using Subpersonalities in Successful Story and Film Script Writing

By Michael Domeyko Rowland

Writing film scripts and novels is a job of consciously building a story that can awaken powerful emotions in your audience.

To be really successful at this, it is vital to understand that reading and viewing stories is also the main way that people experience the integration of different selves or subpersonalities.

It is actually the awakening and the integration of previously buried selves in a story character that causes the emotional catharsis in the audience.

This is the real function of story and the secret of writing great works and enjoying huge success.

When a person goes to the movies, or reads a novel, they are quite obviously looking for something. At the surface level it may be just pure entertainment.

But, at a deeper level, they are actually seeking a greater knowledge of how to live.

Unless you are fortunate enough to know about Voice Dialogue, and the brilliant work of Hal and Sidra Stone, your mind will constantly be seeking the means to become whole and make sense of your life.

At a subconscious level, everybody knows that they are made up of many different subpersonalities. In some this insight is conscious. But for the majority of people it is a mystery. They have no idea that this is how their mind operates.

They believe they are a singular being, and that they are limited to whatever modes of expression they have at the surface of their mind.

Most feel deeply that they could be far more than they actually are, and express themselves in many more ways than they do. But they have no idea how to do it. And, as each year passes, they feel the opportunity slipping away.

So they are driven to do something about this sense of lack.

The way that society has evolved is that stories are offered as the solution. Good ones actually are a solution. The not so good are a sedative for this problem.

When you read a book, or go to a movie, you identify with the lead character, who is known as the protagonist. Your consciousness slips away, as you fall into the story, and your identification with the protagonist allows you to be drawn deeply into a subconscious state and join in with the adventure, or drama, that the protagonist is undergoing.

The more well written the story, the more the audience can identify with the protagonist. Well written means the ability to cause a catharsis, or flood of emotions in the audience.

If a story can do this, then it will become an immediate success. We only have to look at ‘Slumdog Millionaire' to see the power of a story's emotions to take a film to unimaginable heights.

What is most interesting, about a great story, is that the protagonist goes through a transformational arc. In other words they begin with a lack in their character and, by the end of the story, they have solved this by adding an extra subpersonality to their primary self structure.

If they do not do this, and remain the same person at the end of the story, as they were at the beginning, then the audience receive no experience of transformation.

So a protagonist might start off without, say, the courage to take responsibility for their family. By the end of the story, after the specific dramatic events have taken place, they have added the characteristics of courage and responsibility to their primary selves. They have awoken and integrated the selves of courage and responsibility.

As the audience is identified with the protagonist in a great story, the experience the protagonist goes through, of integration of an additional sub personality, is also experienced by the audience.

For a person reading a book or watching a movie, this shared journey of awakening and expressing an additional self or selves, satisfies that basic need of becoming more than they are in their present-day life. This is the function of story catharsis.

Another way of saying this is giving birth to those characteristics or selves that have not had the opportunity of expression before.

This experience draws an audience member out of themselves and increases their energy. They have a sense of fulfilment and happiness they did not have at the beginning of the story. They feel renewed.

After all emotion is e-motion or energy in motion. The great story has caused more energy to flow through them, because something has been unlocked in their psyche.

In fact, the secret of writing successful stories is to realise that people are constantly looking to awaken and integrate more of their selves. So, it is vital to ensure that when you write, you specifically aim your story to give them that experience, through the creation of an emotional catharsis and integration of more selves.

For information on Michael Rowland's writing course, please go to: www.screenstorywriting.com or email him to: info@screenstorywriting.com

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: Today’s Reflection is about a poem that feels very relevant
: to my life right now. Perhaps to yours too, even though the
: reasons might not be the same.

In that first
hardly noticed
moment
to which you wake,
coming back
to this life
from the other
more secret,
moveable
and frighteningly
honest
world
where everything
began,
there is a small
opening
into the new day
which closes
the moment
you begin
your plans.

What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.

What you can live
wholeheartedly
will make plans
enough
for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.

To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged.

Now, looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain
presence
of everything
that can be,
what urgency
calls you to your
one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread
its branches
against a future sky?

Is it waiting
in the fertile sea?
In the trees
beyond the house?
In the life
you can imagine
for yourself?
In the open
and lovely
white page
on the waiting desk?

- David Whyte



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