Me too. What I liked most about BTVS and aTS was the collaboration. The successful tv shows are more often than not collaborative ones. (One of the problems Studio 60 had was the head writer did not trust anyone else to write an episode - he didn't let it be collaborative). Whedon works very well in a collaborative atmosphere - better than solo, I think. And this series will be collaborative in some ways, just not quite in the same way as the tv series was, if that makes sense - which makes it very interesting to me.
Different character voices are tough to keep straight. I've heard that doing exercises like character bios help but I've yet to try that. I think I just make up quick little mini bios in my head.
Agreed. I'm much the same way. I've tried the character bio exercise - it doesn't work for me. I find it too constraining, I guess - never been good at doing plot outlines either. Instead, I make them up in my head and well my characters tend to form as I'm writing them. I go back after to make sure things are consistent.
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Date: 2007-04-07 01:50 pm (UTC)The successful tv shows are more often than not collaborative ones.
(One of the problems Studio 60 had was the head writer did not trust anyone else to write an episode - he didn't let it be collaborative).
Whedon works very well in a collaborative atmosphere - better than solo, I think. And this series will be collaborative in some ways, just not quite in the same way as the tv series was, if that makes sense - which makes it very interesting to me.
Different character voices are tough to keep straight. I've heard that doing exercises like character bios help but I've yet to try that. I think I just make up quick little mini bios in my head.
Agreed. I'm much the same way. I've tried the character bio exercise - it doesn't work for me. I find it too constraining, I guess - never been good at doing plot outlines either. Instead, I make them up in my head and well my characters tend to form as I'm writing them. I go back after to make sure things are consistent.