Tag Archives: aristotle
My Sacred Texts as an Artist
Creativity War of Art, Steven Pressfield Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon Dramatic Writing Poetics, Aristotle The Art of Dramatic Writing, Lajos Egri No-Budget Filmmaking Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez On Pressfield and Kleon: For me, Pressfield and Kleon are the “Ari and Egri” of Creativity. (Aristotle and Egri are considered by many, including […]
Be Interdisciplinary. Like DaVinci. And Bruce Lee.
Something that’s been on my mind lately is the seemingly ever-growing list of disciplines I’ve already been pursuing and which I have recently started or re-started pursuing. Here’s a non-inclusive list: Currently Actively Pursuing: Writing Fiction (Novels) Writing Non-Fiction Screenwriting Directing Film (Fiction and Non-Fiction) Acting Editing Blogging Video Blogging Pursuing, but taking a very […]
Character vs Plot: The Chicken or the Egg?
I’ve recently been reading Aristotle’s Poetics, which is considered, along with Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing, the foundation of modern screenplay writing (and dramatic writing in general). The interesting thing about these two books is that on the surface they appear to contradict each other. Aristotle insists that Plot is most important, and […]
