Donald L. Vasicek

Category: writing

  • Passion, Writing, Screenwriting, and All Things

    by

    Donald L. Vasicek

    What is passion? Merriam Webster in part defines passion as, “…the emotions as distinguished from reason…” By tapping into your passion, you will be able to write as you’ve never written before. And this, in turn, will work as a subliminal approach to promoting yourself and your writing.

    Before you write one word, look deeply inside of yourself when an idea comes to mind about which you would like to write. You must use the who, what, where, when and why journalistic approach to identify that which is deep inside of yourself and relate it to the idea that has come to mind you want to write about. By utilizing this approach, you can identify your passion and write with ruthless abandon.

    So, ask the questions.

    What caused the idea to come to mind? Perhaps you saw a child weeping. She was holding her finger. It was bleeding. You wanted to reach out to her, but you were a stranger and her parents were there. You still wanted to help her with her fear and pain. Why?

    You were inspired to write a short story about what you saw. Why? The inspiration came from deep within the wells of your heart and mind as you remembered when you got hurt when you were a kid and no one came to help you. This inspiration is your passion for helping children in need now because no one was there when you were a kid and needed help.

    Identify when it happened. What were you doing? What caused you to get hurt? Why were you alone? Where were you? Why did you get hurt?

    You get the picture.

    This unique approach should also guide you to the use of your five senses. What did you taste at the time you were hurt? What did you see? What kind of sound or sounds were present? How did you feel (emotionally)? What were you touching? How did it feel? By using the five senses, it will help place you back in time so that you are able to more realistically write the story.

    This approach results in passion and will enable you to write from your heart (emotion) and mind (reason), together. The power of combining your mind (reason) and heart(emotion) instead relying on one or the other, will bring out the essence of what you are writing about. This, in turn, will draw readers to you and your writing.

    Donald L. Vasicek
    Olympus Films+, LLC
    Writing, Filmmaking, Consulting
    http://michaelc.nextmp.net/wordpress
    dvasicek@earthlink.net
    303-903-2103

  • “Unique Promotion for Authors”

    by
    Donald L. Vasicek
    Olympus Films+, LLC
    Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
    http://michaelc.nextmp.net/wordpress
    dvasicek@earthlink.net

    What is passion? Merriam Webster in part defines passion as, “…the emotions as distinguished from reason…” By tapping into your passion, you will be able to write as you’ve never written before. And this, in turn, will work as a subliminal approach to promoting yourself and your writing.

    Before you write one word, look deeply inside of yourself when an idea comes to mind about which you would like to write. You must use the who, what, where, when and why journalistic approach to identify that which is deep inside of yourself and relate it to the idea that has come to mind you want to write about. By utilizing this approach, you can identify your passion and write with ruthless abandon.

    So, ask the questions.

    What caused the idea to come to mind? Perhaps you saw a child weeping. She was holding her finger. It was bleeding. You wanted to reach out to her, but you were a stranger and her parents were there. You still wanted to help her with her fear and pain. Why?

    You were inspired to write a short story about what you saw. Why? The inspiration came from deep within the wells of your heart and mind as you remembered when you got hurt when you were a kid and no one came to help you. This inspiration is your passion for helping children in need now because no one was there when you were a kid and needed help.

    Identify when it happened. What were you doing? What caused you to get hurt? Why were you alone? Where were you? Why did you get hurt?

    You get the picture.

    This unique approach should also guide you to the use of your five senses. What did you taste at the time you were hurt? What did you see? What kind of sound or sounds were present? How did you feel (emotionally)? What were you touching? How did it feel? By using the five senses, it will help place you back in time so that you are able to more realistically write the story.

    This approach results in passion and will enable you to write from your heart (emotion) and mind (reason), together. The power of combining your mind (reason) and heart(emotion) instead relying on one or the other, will bring out the essence of what you are writing about. This, in turn, will draw readers to you and your writing.

    Donald L. Vasicek
    Olympus Films+, LLC
    Writing, Filmmaking, Consulting
    http://michaelc.nextmp.net/wordpress
    dvasicek@earthlink.net

  • “Writing” by Donald L. Vasicek

    Writing of any form requires
    study and research.  The strength
    of any type of writing resides in
    the application of what one learns
    and research, and then, applies it
    by writing, writing, and more writing.
    Each time one writes something, they
    become a better writer.

    For you, you might want to think about
    writing and producing documentaries.  It
    is rare a writer is hired to write a
    documentary film.  Many documentary films
    do not have a script.  Those that do, are
    usually written by the director/producer
    of the film.

    As for feature films, short films, etc., one
    can learn how to write screenplays through a
    variety of ways.  No approach to learning how
    to write screenplays is inscribed in marble.  It
    is dependent upon the individual writer.  Some take
    screenwriting classes.  Others study screenwriting
    books.  Some work with a script consultant until
    they have their screenplay market ready.  And others
    wing it.

    You can determine what works best for you by knowing
    who you are, how you best learn, why you want to write
    documentaries, features, etc., and what audience you
    want to attract with your work, and why.  Answering
    these questions will give you insight into what to
    write and the approach to take in order how to learn
    to write.