For those considering a career as a TV writer...

[guanin]

Read Hello, Lied the Agent by Ian Gurvitz. It will boggle your mind just how fucked up the tv industry is. With so much network interference, I'm shocked that anything of quality ever makes it onscreen. So I'm kinda glad that I haven't gotten any tv ideas so far, because probably no one would buy them anyway and then they would note it to death until it became a horrifying mutant of itself.

And now I'm wondering how much of the crap in Heroes might have been due to the execs sticking their noses where they don't belong. Now I don't know what was the writer's idea or some command from on high anymore.

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[rampant-chaos8.livejournal.com]

Oh man, TV is so crazy. One of my teachers this semester is a director who has done work for episodic television, both network and cable... and I've heard so many stories now. I actually have an idea for a pilot, and I've written a tiny bit of it... but yeah.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I'm figuring you have to be a little masochistic to got into this. Then again, it's that way with movies, too, especially if you don't have commercial ideas like me.