What to blog about? Well I thought I would talk about tv because it does fill some of my life. HBO programming in particular, Sex and the City, Entourage, Six Feet Under, Hung, True Blood, Big Love, The Wire and Rome, the list goes on but there does seem to be a trend with my regular viewing... setting aside Dexter, an old favourite in Friends and new in Grey’s Anatomy.
So what cliché can I conjure from television. Is this a rhetorical question?
Writing and television or movies for that matter go hand in hand as they do with the novel, just a different kind, the screenplay.
I’ve contemplated this for most of my writing comes from a scene or place in my mind with two players hammering it out in many forms. So would screenplays suit me better? Perhaps. Maybe I should do a course.
My question today... how many authors would be better screenplaying? I know that there are some authors who awe inspire and astound me. These are true artists who know there craft. Then there are writers, like me, who create the stories in their head on paper... which is kind of like screen writing?
Narration isn’t my strong suit. I can create a scene and tell a story but the in depth descriptions and creating a bigger, longer narration is the thorn in my side (cliché!) and I do struggle for the most part to get past 70k words. So is this an avenue I should pursue? Jury is still out on that one.
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