Some days I write very very very badly. It's shocking actually. I'm having one of those days. Trying to plow through a rough draft of my Grey's but, well, it stinks so far. So what do I do? Write through it, hoping to get to a place where my writing improves? Or just quit for today and wait until tomorrow?
I think I'll go with plan B.
Also, news from Jane Espenson has thrown a wrench in my summer of writing. She reports that show runners are almost all demanding spec pilots or some other original writing sample for new hires.
I do have a screenplay of course, which counts. But I'm thinking an actual TV pilot might be a better way to go. So, do I abandon my summer of Ugly Betty and Bones (not to mention my half-written Grey's) in favor of a spec pilot?
Oh, the choices, the decisions, the drama!
I think I'll go watch TV.
Slacker excuses:
Watched "An Ice Cream Show" on PBS (hee, it's really called that: "An Ice Cream Show") and am now making plans to travel around the country getting fat on artisan ice cream. Yum.
Original Art Friday 1/24/2020 - Mike Sekowsky!
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2 comments:
can you just change the names and locations of the Grey's stuff and morph it into some other kind of medical spec?
Ha ha. If only it were that simple. I think that would sort of defeat the idea of a spec being startlingly original, with new characters and untapped situations.
Plus, I would never spec a medical drama. Between ER, House, and Grey's, all still on the air, I think we've got the medical arena covered for a while.
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