Ricky Lee in his book Trip to Quiapo, did not only revealed one way on how to get to Quiapo but opened a lot of new ways.
scriptwriting isn’t that easy it takes a lot of time to practice that kind of skills. Almost all people knows how to write but only a few of us take it seriously and enhance our skills in writing. In writing we need the passion to do things so we can provide good stories and scopes.
In Ricky Lee’s book Trip to Quiapo, first he differentiates three writers, the first one just follow the old way where all the other writer used to pass, the second one take the different route to reach Quiapo and the third one was he past through the jungle, mountains and find the all new route and create his own Quiapo. Ricky Lee said that the third one was the best writer among the three bcause he was able to find new ways and used his imagination in creating his own Quiapo. In scriptwriting we must use our imagination, every time we release an idea in our mind. The ideas must flow continuously to be able to produce the other hidden ideas behind every erasure or edited word in our work. It’s the countless times, that we want our real self to speak in every work that we do that makes it a script worth not only publishing but putting into a real world.
Lee also talked about the “little people” inside of us, those of which can only come out if we look beyond what we literally see and think out of the box, and just let our emotions and hidden ideas flow. It’s the unpredictability and uniqueness of our little selves that enables a person to write. Not sticking to traditional ways, rather, realizing the importance of the abject of the other that makes every detail, every emotion, timeless in a scriptwriter’s work.Using the object of what is there and what is not opens new horizons to a writer on how he could come out of the box he is given, and take an extra mile in his creative visions that is far from the old way.
Going to a place where we want to be also gives us the idea and where we can found new stories that we can make. Just like riding a jeepney. We don’t just sit there and wait for arrive where we want to be. While traveling we can see a picture of our surroundings as the jeepney goes by. The other person sitting right beside or in front of you can tell different stories., some are comfortable on his place while taking a smooth and nice trip along the highway, or the other on feels the other way. Going to one place to another makes us feel or see different kind of emotions.