When you write a story or script that is your own idea, your feeling of ownership is clear and strong. After all, the idea came from you, inside you, deep inside, right?
What about when you get an assignment? When an editor, theater or film company commissions you to write about a story they want to develop?
How can you get that same sense of ownership, that same primal urge to tell the story, when it was someone else’s idea?
Getting paid? Will that do it? No. Being motivated to get paid is not what I mean, even though getting paid for assignments is certainly something that keeps us on our toes.
What I mean is: how do we make a story our own?
We have to find a core connection and write from that core. We have to find a hook into it from our own life or heart.
Lisa Kirazian 