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Right.
So, Sunday afternoon, I was stressed out and tense, and decided that the cure to what ailed me would be a nice, long, warm bath. Sound thinking on my part.
I'm about 15 minutes into it, all drowsy with my eyes closed and savouring the warmth and steam, some nu-jazz playing in the background, when a second idea came into my head. Unannounced. Unsolicited. Slightly unwanted, because I was all wet and soapy and helpless to follow through on anything in the tub. And it was also deeply annoying: I never have The Big Idea in the bath. It's just not my medium.
The idea was for a TV show. It felt exciting. Vital. And — to my absolute surprise — I actually believed in it. Surprising because I loathe every single supposed 'idea' that my brain sharts out. Nothing great — or even good — ever came out of that piece of defective equipment I keep in my cranium, and I can't trade in for a new one.
After the bath, I wrote the idea in the passport-sized Muji notebook I keep on my desk, next to my Wacom tablet and keyboard. One short sentence. I told myself I wouldn't do anything with it for two days, and just let it sit. I would come back to look at it in a couple of days, and decide if I was just being a stupid no-talent cunt, or if I should go ahead and write that pitch deck.
Here we are, two days later, and I decided to meet myself in the middle: I was being a no-talent cunt, but I'm going to go ahead and write that pitch anyway.
So, now, I've been sat here for just over three-and-a-half hours, trying to come up with a killer logline. I've got two ideas so far, and they both suck sausage's dog's apparently bulging nutsack.
In the first three-ish hours of my career as an aspiring TV show producer, here's what I've learned:
• This is absolutely n-o-t-h-i-n-g like trying to come up with ad campaign ideas;
• It's not the least bit like coming up with headlines for a campaign;
• And it is truly a different animal from writing a 30" TVC.I don't think my experience as an advertising concepter/CD is being the least bit helpful here.
The other thing I've learned in these three-ish hours is that my dubious status of no-talent cunt confirmed itself with every passing minute I couldn't craft a simple fucking logline that makes sense. Gnn.
Nonetheless, I shall persevere. I have a lifetime (and several hard drives and notebooks) full of abandoned half-baked ideas for stuff I would/should/could do. For once in my life, I want to follow through on something.
I'd just better disabuse myself of the notion that I'll have this pitch deck ready any time soon. At this rate, it will be months.
- is there anyone you trust who you can share it with? often bouncing ideas back and forth helps to generate the really top ideas.hans_glib
- For this particular project, not in real-time. Although there is absolutely one QBNer I would trust without hesitation, once the first draft of the deck is doneContinuity
- Continuity and that other QBNer
https://i.ytimg.com/…drgs - Nice read. I wish I could help; I share your perspective, though.maquito
- Go for it, ignore your self esteem. Sometimes you have to stop listening to imposter syndrome to get things done ;)OBBTKN
- At least give us a hint what it is aboutdrgs
- No can do, I'm afraid.Continuity
- there's something about being horizontal and turning the brain off that allows creativity and honesty to flowcanoe
- if you still have all your starter ideas, I'm sure there's something in there, share them with your friends, ask them, musicians do thatcanoe
- Try AIscarabin