The Writer Brain

Most actors are intimately familiar with the works of Stanislavski and tap into the feelings and wants of their characters as a way to direct their actions on stage. Improvisors have a hard time using this technique because they don't have a script to hold their characters to the grater good of the story. It's important for actors for the improv stage to train themselves to separate their actor brain from their writer brain. Skilled long-form improvisors relegate their character's wants to only how they emote, and not to what they endow as the reality of the story. This allows us to improvise intricate stories in which bad things can happen to good people.