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How to Trigger the Theater of the Mind How to Trigger the Theater of the Mind Jerry Jenkins and David Loy Workshop #7 Unedited Transcript Watch or listen here “How to Trigger the Theater of the Mind” *The purpose of this transcript is to help you follow along with the lessons in the video. For this reason, the contents have not been extensively edited for grammar and punctuation. David: Hi and welcome to this month’s live online workshop presented exclusively for you as a member of the Jerry Jenkins Writers Guild. I’m your host, David Loy and today’s workshop is titled, “How to Trigger the Theater of your Reader’s Mind.” Your trainer for this intense is of course, Jerry Jenkins. As you know, besides serving as your virtual writing coach, Jerry remains an active author himself. Currently, he’s working on his 190th book. He’s written 21 New York Times bestsellers and he sold more than 70 million books. Welcome Jerry, how are you doing today? Jerry: I’m doing great David and as always, I’m eager to dive into today’s content but can I tell a quick grandkid story first? David: Absolutely. Jerry: Well, we’ve got my 2nd son, Chad’s here with his 4 kids and the little guy you see on the screen right now, Micah, he’s 6 years old. Yesterday morning, he was playing with a lightsaber when I got up, I’m an early riser and Micah was playing with a lightsaber and was being noisy. I said, “You better put that away until your dad gets up, until grandma gets up because THE JERRY JENKINS WRITERS GUILD: WORKSHOP #7 UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT 2 you’re going to wake them up.” He tossed it on the couch and folded his arms and gave me a pout and he says, “I guess I’ll just have to use the force.” David: Stories like that trigger images in my mind, I can just see as if I were there with you. Jerry: Well, that’s a good segway into today’s topic because evoking images is so crucial to the writing process. David: Well, it must be because more than once I’ve heard you refer to this idea of triggering the theater of the reader’s mind and I reminded our attendees today of your writing credits though as members of the guild, I’m sure they’re well aware of your experience but I did this because I wanted to establish again that you never approach these training sessions as merely a theory or someone reflecting on some bygone career. You’re still in the trenches everyday putting this stuff into practice. Jerry: That’s true David and while I never want to come across as a know it all or imply that my way is the only way, I do want to teach only those techniques that I find still work in actual practice. David: Great. I know you’ve got a lot to cover today but let’s make clear right off the bat exactly what you’re talking about. What does it mean to trigger the theater of your reader’s mind? Jerry: Well, I’ll give an example, here’s something that we hear all the time and probably say it ourselves. When we see a movie based on a book we’ve THE JERRY JENKINS WRITERS GUILD: WORKSHOP #7 UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT 3 read, even if we absolutely love the picture, so often we say, “But the book was better.” David: We do, I do, why is that? Jerry: Well I think it’s because not even Hollywood with all its glitz and glamour and high tech CGI capability can compete with the theater that resides in our own brains. I happen to be a person of faith who believes God created us and gave us these incredible high tech processors between our ears. Regardless of whether you attribute this to the creator, you have to admit, your brain is a miraculous contraption. When I read a book, my mind conjures images of everything the author describes but also, more astoundingly, it paints pictures for me of things the author only suggests and sometimes doesn’t mention at all. That’s why I think that we occasionally remember books we’ve read as if they had pictures in them when they don’t. David: That’s why you’re saying that not even Hollywood can compete with the theater of our reader’s mind? Jerry: Exactly, that’s why we always say the book was better. David: Okay, so this session is going to deal with how we can best take advantage of that reality. Jerry: That’s the plan David, it’s really about involving your reader in the story telling process, allowing him the pleasure, the treat, the privilege of discovering things on the wide screen of his mind without having to spoon feed him every detail. Now, let me just toss in on the side here, I’m referring THE JERRY JENKINS WRITERS GUILD: WORKSHOP #7 UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT 4 to the reader as the singular he so I don’t have to keep referring to the cumbersome him and her, him or her or he or she. We can all agree that that means that for a typical reader of either gender that we should all have in mind when we write even though most writers and readers are women. I’ll use the “he” here to refer to the reader. David: All right, fair enough, now back to your point, correct me if I’m wrong but I heard a subtle but important difference there. You’re not suggesting we show our story in the theater of our reader’s mind but rather that we give him enough information to trigger his own imagination and he can show his own movie of our story in the theater of his mind, is that right? Jerry: Well that’s the takeaway value from this session. You could just adjourn the meeting and we can all be on our way. David: I don’t think any of us want that, I know you certainly have a lot to show us that will teach us exactly how to do what you’re recommending. Jerry: I do. David: Okay, am I right when I get the impression that this fits in with some broader foundational principles of yours like thinking reader first or giving the reader credit and it’s a sin to bore your reader? Jerry: All right, now you’re just playing teacher’s pet. David: Well, it just seems that by triggering the theater of the reader’s mind, we make him a partner rather than just an audience member. THE JERRY JENKINS WRITERS GUILD: WORKSHOP #7 UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT 5 Jerry: Right again so you get the gold star today. David: Well thank you. Now, let me remind everyone that as usual, our training is followed by a live question or answer session during which you may ask Jerry questions that arise out of his teaching today. Be thinking of your questions, have them ready to type in once Jerry is finished presenting and as always, we’re going to get to many questions as possible in our allotted time. Make sure to take full advantage to this personal access to Jerry Jenkins. Okay, Jerry, the floor is yours, show us how to trigger the theater of the reader’s mind. Jerry: Sounds good David, here we go. If you’re a visual learner like I am and it helps you to take notes as we go, feel free to do that. Don’t worry if you’re unable to get everything down as I fly through this, I’m going to cover a lot of ground and leave more time than usual today for that live Q&A session. We may have an extra 10 of 15 minutes by the time we get through here besides the half hour we already have allotted. Remember that this is being recorded and it will be archived in our landing page. on the guild’s site within about 48 hours from now. You’ll have full access to it as many times as you want, 24/7. Also, though this takes a little more time, we also post a full transcript of the session in PDF form. You can download that, read it, whatever you need to do. My goal today is to help you paint more vivid pictures with your writing. Ironically, that’s going to mean less description rather than more. I’ll cover techniques to help you spark the reader’s senses, get that projector running in the theater of his mind and avoid anything that gets in the way of that. Let me define the theater of the mind, it’s simply your reader’s imagination and if Hollywood can’t compete with it, nothing you write will ever be able THE JERRY JENKINS WRITERS GUILD: WORKSHOP #7 UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT 6 to either. Your hope, your plan should be to trigger it, ignite it. As David and I discussed, that’s why we almost always say, “The book was better than the movie.” Truly engaging the reader’s brain gives him an unlimited canvass or movie screen if you will onto which he can project virtually anything. If you can get your reader to see your story in his mind’s eye, you’ll keep him turning the pages till the end. That doesn’t mean describing everything in detail, remember you’re stimulating the theater of the mind, not doing its job.
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