150 Marbles
Yippee! I just got an email that the “Writing for TV” course that I was wait-listed for has an open space. The trick is, now I have three days to come up with an idea for a TV series and pitch it to the class this week. I’ll have to write the pilot for the series and it’s something that I’ll be working on for most of the year, so I want the pitch to be good. I also have very little time to get creative.
I was thinking about a series that is filled with women’s stories. Most of the series that I see on TV now are men’s stories and the women are just accessories. I want a series where the sun revolves around the moon - where women are the center of the universe.
I also want a series that is sexy. I used to come home after work sometimes and find Ex-man watching the late night show Red Shoe Diaries. The dialogue made my ears bleed. It seemed to me the whole purpose of the show was to get the characters in situations where clothing was unnecessary. I told Ex-man that I knew that there could be a show that was erotic and had a good story. He’d argue that those shows already existed but when I asked him to show them to me, he came up empty handed. I’m thinking a little more sex, a very different city.
Last year I went to a burlesque show after work and as soon as I saw the first performance, I knew that it could be the key to creating a show that was sexy and filled with potential for story. So I’ve got this amorphous idea about burlesque and women and an interesting city. Let’s hope that I have more than that to pitch in three days…
What would it take to stay open to inspiration? What would it take to use the straw of an idea and spin it into gold that could help support your family?
Yippee! I just got an email that the “Writing for TV” course that I was wait-listed for has an open space. The trick is, now I have three days to come up with an idea for a TV series and pitch it to the class this week. I’ll have to write the pilot for the series and it’s something that I’ll be working on for most of the year, so I want the pitch to be good. I also have very little time to get creative.
I was thinking about a series that is filled with women’s stories. Most of the series that I see on TV now are men’s stories and the women are just accessories. I want a series where the sun revolves around the moon - where women are the center of the universe.
I also want a series that is sexy. I used to come home after work sometimes and find Ex-man watching the late night show Red Shoe Diaries. The dialogue made my ears bleed. It seemed to me the whole purpose of the show was to get the characters in situations where clothing was unnecessary. I told Ex-man that I knew that there could be a show that was erotic and had a good story. He’d argue that those shows already existed but when I asked him to show them to me, he came up empty handed. I’m thinking a little more sex, a very different city.
Last year I went to a burlesque show after work and as soon as I saw the first performance, I knew that it could be the key to creating a show that was sexy and filled with potential for story. So I’ve got this amorphous idea about burlesque and women and an interesting city. Let’s hope that I have more than that to pitch in three days…
What would it take to stay open to inspiration? What would it take to use the straw of an idea and spin it into gold that could help support your family?
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