November 14, 2023

Why Not Speak Clearly? Exploring the Power of Communication


Why?

We all ask why we should speak clearly? - Why prepare the speech? Why prepare the e-mail? You know… Why question your thoughts? Why think that hard? Why put yourself through 30 minutes of writing one important e-mail and then re-writing it? Why? ...  Good question: Why?  Best answer 
to "Why" I think is the second question: 

Why Not?

Why not see how many mails you can prepare? How many thoughts you can question? How many times you can be clear? 

Why not see how influential you can become to your work and to your friends and to your family? Why not see what you can make out of yourself? Why not? How clear you can become? How much you can say, how much you can do, how much you can accomplish? Why not be clear?

It's a gift.

That’s the heritage all of us have, to see what we can make with our lives, now that we’ve been giving that extraordinary gift of influencing work, friends and family. 

The Screenwriter's Contract with the Audience

As a screenwriter, you have a contract with your audience. Did you know that? I didn’t until I watched Andy Guerdat's interview on Film ...