pillaroforder wrote:
KurtDunn wrote:
That's one way to write... With an idea of where you're going...
But as the T.V. series Lost has proven, you can be incredibly successful without any initial idea of WTH you're doing.
Like a Highschool creative writing class, just aimlessly going for the wierdest, far out shit as it comes to mind. Then make sense of it two seasons down the road.
Well, it was very aptly named. As lost in direction (where the script was going) as it was in premise (lost on an island).
But that seems screenwriting standard these days - good title, good premise, but no idea what to do down the road. Too bad.
Sounds too much like Venture Cap software in the Silicon Valley. The height of the Dot-Com sillyness. Concept and name-only got you seven-figure funding. THEN you had to figure out what to do with it, many couldn't. Yes, Hollywood really does operate like that, too. Independent script writers got tired of making full script and season plots only to have 95% of them rejected. They only submit synopsis sheets these days. Much easier and less work. The the studios hand that to a staff writer, who may not have a clue about what to do with it. Staff writers don't get residuals and they refuse to talk to the original writer, who does.
Yes, massive stupids in both cases.