21.5.07

Real bad writing

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.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

can you just change the names and locations of the Grey's stuff and morph it into some other kind of medical spec?

Jane said...

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.