I'm having trouble staying focused on my writing projects. I started a Supernatural episode. It went way out of control, so I abandoned it. Then I started the feature spec I'm currently working on, but a lot of the emotional things I was going through have changed, thus changing how I perceive my characters. I still feel good about the script, but I'm getting impatient to be done with it. When I started I raced through the first act. Now I'm a little stalled. It probably doesn't help that I spend so much time at the gym now and I'm too beat to write when I get home.
I also want to restart my Supernatural episode and take it in a different direction. I just hope the season finale doesn't screw up the dynamic they currently have. That's the danger with TV specs: you never know if what you wrote will be any good tomorrow. My Lost spec was awesome, but it was about Shannon and she's dead now, so there goes that month's worth of work.
When I'm done with that, I want to work on a My Name is Earl spec. I'm finally taking a stab at comedy, which I've had no success at int he past. But I figure that of all the shows on the air, this one I can relate to better than any other. The dialogue is natural to me because these characters are similar to people to whom I'm loosely related.
Then there's the big comedy spec that will take a ton of money and time to research. Then there's the historical queen story I've been manipulating for ages in my head. On top of that, I still want to go back to my high school story and figure out whether or not it was a comedy or drama. Then I have to take a good long look at my action script and fix it.
I just have too many ideas to do them all justice, it seems. I just have to finish this feature first. Then I'll have something permanent to be proud of.
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Yes, I can see what you mean... I'm kinda that way too. What I do is, I take the one I "feel" for the most and finish it, even if it's a shitty first draft. At least then I've got something to polish.
ReplyDeleteWith the big projects you have to spend the time needed. Those are the ones that usually break through in the market.
Good luck!
Yeah writing TV specs is hard. I had a great Lost spec idea, detailing what happened to Claire when she was kidnapped by Ethan. Then [like 15 episodes later] they wrote an episode dealing with that, and it was oh so much better and more intriguing. [mine had a druid/pagan ritual, yikes!]
ReplyDeleteI gave up [finally] writing my Will and Grace spec since it's the last season and every show runner/producer in Hollywood has spent the last 8 years reading W&G specs.
So now I'm writing this feature that will take me forver to finish, even though I need to write more tv specs!
That is definitely frustrating. And it makes you feel like such a loser when the professionals blow all your ideas out of the water. At least with a feature spec, nobody comes along and writes your story better than you do, so you're not quite so aware of how much you suck. With TV that's always going to be a threat.
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