9 Responses to “Take the poll…”

1. MaryAn on Thursday: 19 October 2006|1351

   Wanna learn about t.v. specs. I understand the structure but other than that, pfft.

2. Unk on Thursday: 19 October 2006|1653

   Same here… Except for a few passages in a couple of books and some loose talk about structure… pfft.

   Hey, I like that.

   Unk

3. Laura Reyna on Thursday: 19 October 2006|1736

   I write stricly features.

   I don’t have any interest in writing TV shows. But I wouldn’t mind writing movies for HBO or Showtime etc. I consider cable an alternative market for features.

   I’m not on this TV boon at all. I don’t watch any of the newish shows. I remember renting the 1st couple episodes of CSI a while back & thinking, meh… so-so…

   LOST doesn’t appeal to me at all. It sounds like the TV equivelant of a cock tease.

   But we did rent DEADWOOD & enjoyed it. It plays a little over-written, but overall good entertainment, if you don’t mind the profanity. :-)

   We’ve started on the ROME DVD & it looks good.

   So we’re having better luck w/ the cable shows than with the network shows.

   Alex Epstein has a new book Crafty TV Writing (i think???) if you’re interested in knowing more.

4. Unk on Thursday: 19 October 2006|1835

   Not really… LOL. I’ll read about if it’s in a book but I don’t see myself buying a book just about television writing although I would imagine there might just be some good stuff in there to consider utilizing for feature writing.

   The only television I ever watch was THE SOPRANOS, DEADWOOD, and now DEXTER on Showtime and to be honest, I missed most of the episodes and just bought the season DVDs.

   What I don’t like about the idea of writing for a television show is that I would imagine you have to get in there and watch that show to really know its characters… Something that sounds way too daunting for me.

   Dealing with my own characters is bad enough… I can’t imagine dealing with somebody else’s.

   Looks like we have more spec feature writers so far… Interesting.

   Unk

5. Dante Kleinberg on Saturday: 21 October 2006|0038

   Actually I think of myself as a novelist.

   But I’m writing a screenplay now with a partner based on my unpublished novel. And because my partner is a TV guy, I wrote a Smallville spec for the heck of it. And though apparently it was a good first effort, I haven’t gone back to it for rewrites.

   I just don’t feel a passion for TV writing like I do for novels, and like I’m starting to for screenplays.

6. Poke on Saturday: 21 October 2006|1554

   I like both and have attempted both.

   I am currently writing a feature spec, but I am also developing an animated pilot — the script is written, we’re doing tests at the moment.

   Poke

7. David Anaxagoras on Saturday: 21 October 2006|2127

   I watch very little television. Kicked the habit before grad school and never looked back. I watch Lost, but wish I didn’t. So if I wanted to spec a show I’d have to get a couple of season DVDs and do some intensive study.

8. Miriam Paschal on Monday: 23 October 2006|1237

   What I write are sort of spec features for hire. I’m writing for indy film-makers who are trying to get financing for movies. Naturally there’s no money in this, but I’m getting exposure and experience.

   So I’m writing based on the ideas of the director who wants to get the movie made and working with them to make sure they have the product they want.

9. Josh on Friday: 29 June 2007|1451

   My writing partner writes TV because she’s a TV fiend and has always thought TV shows were FAR more interesting than features.

   I write for TV because I believe TV is far friendlier to writers in the sense that the work that you write will (for the most part) be the work that actually makes it up onto the screen, and because I love the idea of longform storytelling in a visual medium. Good TV CAN BE very novel-like, while great films have always felt to me more like short stories. Nothing is wrong with either, but I prefer to tell longer stories that allow me to stick with my characters and take them through a variety of choices. I also think that RIGHT NOW movie studios are telling far less interesting stories and taking far fewer risks than television.

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