This Is How You Actually Know You're A Writer - Carole Kirschner

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In this Film Courage video interview, Entertainment Career Coach, Speaker and Author Carole Kirschner shares how a storyteller is someone who loves sharing stories, often from a young age, and they have a burning desire to express something through their tales. Great storytellers aim to engage and impact their audience, and they focus on creating compelling characters and unexpected plot twists.

Carole Kirschner spent fifteen years as a television development executive. A former Vice
President of Television for Steven Spielberg's first Amblin Entertainment and a Comedy
Development exec at CBS, she’s had the privilege of working with some of the most
respected writers in the industry.

Switching to the other side of the desk she became a consultant and created and runs
the CBS/Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, which has helped launch the careers of
more than eighty television writers of color, including 14 showrunners. Because of her
work with CBS she was asked to help writer/producer Jeff Melvoin as he developed the
curriculum for the WGA Showrunner Training Program and as the Director has been
running the Program for 18 years.

Ms. Kirschner, through her career coaching practice, Carole Kirschner Entertainment
Career Strategies (carolekirschner dot com) works primarily with screenwriters who are
stuck or need help navigating the political landscape. She recently launched the
successful online course, “How to Pitch a TV Show That Sells” and is gearing up for her
new online course, “Get the F Unstuck: Break Through and Create Your Ideal
Hollywood Career” in late spring. She is also an international speaker and her book,
Hollywood Game Plan: How to Land a Job in Film, TV and Digital Entertainment is
taught in colleges across the country.

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[filmcourage]

When did you realize you were a writer?

[BlueJGilbert]

I was so scared to click this video, but I should have known better. I want to write a story that a person might curl up with on a rainy, boring day, and suddenly love rainy days because they had a good book to enjoy.

Thanks for these videos. They do in fact make me feel brave enough to write.

[erika.schyma]

I cannot wow enough.
Great interview. Pure gold.
Everything Carole says reassures me a lot.

[welcometothejungle]

I started coming up with silly stories as a kid and wrote some down. By high school, I read scores of novels and wrote dozens of short stories and countless poems. I got into music for many years after high school and realized all I was really interested in was composition, not so much performing. Now I'm taking on screenwriting and I feel write at home. A lot of parallels to classical and romantic symphonic composition. It's actually been really helpful.

[hannahs]

This made me cry in the first minute.
I've been having so many problems with being able to have time where I'm actually able to think and be able to sit down and write lately and I feel so cornered because I can't express myself and I've been creating comics and stories and writing since I was 5 or 6. It kills me to not have time to write and it's one of the only things that makes me feel truly alive

[rudyspective]

This is a great conversation! Carole made it sound quite easy to write and easy to understand. Unfortunately it made me think I'm not cut out to be a storyteller, but I do like to write about my opinions on things...

[azia]

I when I was 14 years I love doing it looking at tv creating my own verisons a message I want to say I have to do it it's like breathing for me

[subramanianramamoorthy]

Madam Carole explains the nuances of story telling, its core and the way of story development very lucidly, pragmatically and usefully
Thanks are due to Madam Carole and team Film courage

[concernedcitizen]

As an aspiring storyteller this was so reassuring and incite full.
Great interview 🙏❤️

[azia]

I always right from the heart from my emotions

[stiankallhovd]

I really resonate with what she says. The stories I want to tell come from a deep place within myself, both emotionally and philosophically. I really hope to move people and offer them things to consider, as well as entertain.

And I DO believe all of this is possible to accomplish within the fantasy genre! :) Fantasy is a great co-genre with drama, because the stakes can be even higher in such a setting (powerful beings / magic etc.).

[lp]

What a wonderful interview!! Thank you so much for sharing. 😊❤

[elaineOiwish]

I’ve always been in a fantasy world. School told me I couldn’t write. In my 60s I finally realized I was always writing stories in my mind to myself. I am finally writing things down.

[Blackdiamondprod.]

6:00 those are not innate things. They’re behavior patterns and thought patterns, which are learned. Your “personality type” is the product of your life.

[NINJED]

1. You told stories even as a child
2. You have a diary or journal
3. You wrote episodes for cartoons or tv as a fan
4. You love telling stories about your life or about lessons learned
5. You want to share meaningful experiences that move people
6. You want to entertain people even scare others
7. You want to share what is authentic regardless of niches
8. You like to take fringe stories and rework them for ordinary people
9. You study experience looking for new solutions to typical trauma
10. You recognize when to water down trauma & retell the story for target audiences

[DurandGarcia]

Alice Miller's "Drama of the Gifted Child" was the first of many insightful books. Miller points out that trauma often stunts growth and imprisons part of a person at the age of the violation. And from then on they may, in fact, perceive, react, and process the events in their life through the lens of the child or adolescent who was traumatized. Understanding the effects of childhood or adolescent trauma is vital to your growth and development.

[Memoo]

İf you aren't here accidentally you are hidden story teller writer trust your self and show us that you are unique

[ewalichorowicz]

Thank you for this very good explanation. When I was growing up my dad was a telling me stories and he was a great story teller. Most of his stories were based on events that have happened. To tell other stories, he was using his imagination.

[crummymudd]

I loved 'Man in the Moon' -- Andy Kaufman says something like 'when people come to my show, I want them to feel everything -- happiness, anger, sadness, doubt ... ' and a bunch of other that I forgot from the movie. But what stuck was as a child he was jumping on his bed, telling a story with his stuffed animals as characters .... then at the end of the movie, it had been such an emotional roller coaster, I think I understood what he (well, the movie version) was trying to express, maybe

[Elvis-mi]

When I convinced my teacher(in a essay) schools that wear uniforms have more benefits financially than free dress.
She said it was well written. Most students side with free dress because it’s easier to come up with opinions why free dress is best. But I took the uniform route because it seemed more of a challenge to convince the reader.
What did it, is when I argued against my own points but was able to bring it around and flip it back to support my main point and drive it home. Stick the landing lol
So far, I’m done with the script and heading towards story board. Spielberg said stick figure is okay. So that’s what I’m going with.