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Lesson 6 David Mamet’s Masterclass.com Story Ideas

 

David Mamet lesson #6 Story Ideas

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“I always used to tell my kids- they’d say -‘ dad where’d you get your ideas,  ‘I’d say, there’s this little Mexican guy in Encino, Ok and he drives in on weekends and sells them off the back of a truck’ we all have ideas all the time. Our minds, Swinburne, I believe said, is a raging fire. We have all these ideas all the time. What if that person turned around and said I love you…? what if we got a thing in the mail that said, he’s not your real father..”

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David Mamet used his life in Chicago. What can you use from your life? Your life is different, unique with your own experiences.   

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He admits he ‘wrote about the ‘underbelly’ of life’. His life in Chicago.

 

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He isn’t interested in themes.  He is interested in telling a story. He said,  “no one ever left a great play humming a theme”

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He said, “a good writer kept what a bad writer threw out”

“If it doesn’t make sense- work it though,-and see where it leads you”

He said that writing is like a dream, pick out in that dream what doesn’t belong. Then,  focus on that thing that wasn’t supposed to be there.

I found this interesting PDF : Notes from a David Mamet workshop

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