tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22720759.post4238973187896916800..comments2024-03-25T08:50:10.516+00:00Comments on Was it something I wrote?: A rant a day helps you work rest and.......retireEnglish Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04686490554533309973noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22720759.post-15432381089281271502007-07-06T23:11:00.000+01:002007-07-06T23:11:00.000+01:00Much sense GD. Universal truth is the heart of dra...Much sense GD. Universal truth is the heart of drama.<BR/><BR/>What is the connection that makes us tune in? Search for that in whatever you write.English Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04686490554533309973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22720759.post-15393864709756137252007-07-06T22:38:00.000+01:002007-07-06T22:38:00.000+01:00Hell, you’ve got to have a rant otherwise, come of...Hell, you’ve got to have a rant otherwise, come of the end of the day, you’re lying wide awake in bed grinding your teeth.<BR/><BR/>You think in three years the wannabe-writer bloggers will have given up or still moaning about how nobody is giving them the time of day?<BR/><BR/>Having given my views of the BBC Academy and the offer to write for the possibly less than inspiring Casualty, Holby City, etc..., I wondering if a lot of writers need to start there.<BR/><BR/>There are a couple of quotes a friend in LA passed on to me, which I’ve posted:<BR/><BR/>Faulker’s mention that drama is “the human heart in conflict with itself” and Thoreau’s “How vain it is to sit down an write when you have not stood up to live.”<BR/><BR/>Having read posts of various amateur writer’s story ideas, I’ve stepped away from the monitors shaking my head. Since most of them are “youngsters”, it seems like they’re influenced by the high-concept movies and shallow, superficial television shows, and not at all by life carrying on around them. <BR/><BR/>Most of them didn’t seem to understand what lies at the heart of drama. Instead they concentrated on bullshit, ill thought out ideas that made no sense whatsoever and came from an impoverished imagination. <BR/><BR/>I think if this lot ever get under the wire and into the compound, what we have on now will be much worse.<BR/><BR/>So, in closing... Aaaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!Good Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789861569691613179noreply@blogger.com