2025-03-20 07:34

writers-adapting-their-personal-experience

I came across this comment by an user MutinyIPO in Reddit (r/TrureFilm) while I was reading about past lives.

I think there’s a trap even the best writers can fall into when they’re adapting their own personal experience, in which various details, motivators, emotional turns, etc. are taken for granted because that’s how your memory interprets them. What is intended to be reflection can easily become solipsism - which can be a mixed blessing in prose writing, but in filmmaking will inevitably manifest as emptiness.

Whenever I reflect on why-do-I-write, I realise, its usually a purely personal pursuit. As if I want to read out to myself, something I haven't processed yet. The writing helps me process it one stet at a time. But when I have thought of sharing my writing in the public, I have often struggles to share them. I wonder if the reader can connect the way I connect to the writing pieces unless they get a hint of my details, motivators, and emotional turns. May be in prose writing it works, but for filmmaking it might manifest as emptiness.

References

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/1ayyrmo/am_i_missing_something_with_past_lives/