Writer's Block: Must see TV
Nov. 17th, 2010 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I don't actually have writer's block. Okay, I kind of do, but that's not the point.
I just saw this. And it made me laugh. And then it made me think.
Really, though. What would I do? Mostly, I'm a dirtyfastcheapinthebackroomwiththelightsdown kind of a writer. I don't think I could sustain for a whole season, let alone a series. Maybe a miniseries. MAYBE.
To be honest, I'm best at taking pre-existing things and turning them into something else (or, at least, shaping them a little differently). I have a ridiculous need to be poignant and still am not yet fearless in my writing.
I know this is all about producing, but the ideas for writing and the ideas for producing aren't that dissimilar.
Time travel does appeal to me as a concept, but I'm really only ever interested in going to the past (and what does that say about me, I wonder?)
Okay, I got it. The show would be called The Antique Dealer's Daughter. The girl in question would be escaping her own past by uncovering history. Not in an educational way. It'd be more time-travelly and darker than that. Much darker. And by girl I meant young woman (I want the cast played by unknowns, thank you very much). She'll find a love interest at some not-her-own time. I'd want the fantasy so meshed with real life that it was indistinguishable, the focus on the relationships and adaptability of characters, which the traveling only a delightful vehicle. She would find out about her family and herself. Her father would be eccentric and a bit frightening, her mother a ghost of her former self, and her brother a sweet, kind, hilarious, and completely-useless-to-society sort of fellow. She'd be smart and funny while self-conscious and awkward and judgmental and occasionally cruel.
Actually, this sounds more like a movie. And the short story I wrote for my collection (mostly because I just hijacked my own title). And my own life because, aside from time travel and love interests, it IS. Hmm. Is that allowed?
I don't actually have writer's block. Okay, I kind of do, but that's not the point.
I just saw this. And it made me laugh. And then it made me think.
Really, though. What would I do? Mostly, I'm a dirtyfastcheapinthebackroomwiththelightsdown kind of a writer. I don't think I could sustain for a whole season, let alone a series. Maybe a miniseries. MAYBE.
To be honest, I'm best at taking pre-existing things and turning them into something else (or, at least, shaping them a little differently). I have a ridiculous need to be poignant and still am not yet fearless in my writing.
I know this is all about producing, but the ideas for writing and the ideas for producing aren't that dissimilar.
Time travel does appeal to me as a concept, but I'm really only ever interested in going to the past (and what does that say about me, I wonder?)
Okay, I got it. The show would be called The Antique Dealer's Daughter. The girl in question would be escaping her own past by uncovering history. Not in an educational way. It'd be more time-travelly and darker than that. Much darker. And by girl I meant young woman (I want the cast played by unknowns, thank you very much). She'll find a love interest at some not-her-own time. I'd want the fantasy so meshed with real life that it was indistinguishable, the focus on the relationships and adaptability of characters, which the traveling only a delightful vehicle. She would find out about her family and herself. Her father would be eccentric and a bit frightening, her mother a ghost of her former self, and her brother a sweet, kind, hilarious, and completely-useless-to-society sort of fellow. She'd be smart and funny while self-conscious and awkward and judgmental and occasionally cruel.
Actually, this sounds more like a movie. And the short story I wrote for my collection (mostly because I just hijacked my own title). And my own life because, aside from time travel and love interests, it IS. Hmm. Is that allowed?
