Quote: SlagA @ January 27 2009, 11:21 AM GMTAlthough there are areas we can't control, there's no room for excuse on our side.
You're just not trying hard enough. There's always room for excuse. 
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Quote: Marc P @ January 27 2009, 9:11 AM GMTIf something can be imagined it can be described.
It can be described, but only in terms of what the reader already knows. If the writer imagines something frighteningly original, it would surely be harder to describe it, than if it was fairly conventional, simply because the reader will have fewer frames of reference with which to appreciate the idea.
Good writers write good.
They can put all kinds of thoughts and pictures in readers' heads. It's what it is all about innit.
Quote: Marc P @ January 27 2009, 12:03 PM GMTGood writers like chipolata write good.
He can put all kinds of thoughts and pictures in readers' heads. It's what it is all about.
Thank you, Marc.
I think the truth is somewhere in between. Yes, commissioners and editors are always looking out for the next big thing, and will champion writers/projects they believe in. However, entertainment is also like any other industry where there are old boys networks etc.
Quote: Griff @ January 27 2009, 1:35 PM GMTExcept Entertainment USA which mostly used young boys networks.
You bastard, sticking the knife into poor JK. Hasn't he suffered enough? Hasn't he earned the right to get on with his life without cheap jibes?
Quote: chipolata @ January 27 2009, 1:34 PM GMTI think the truth is somewhere in between. Yes, commissioners and editors are always looking out for the next big thing, and will champion writers/projects they believe in. However, entertainment is also like any other industry where there are old boys networks etc.
I think that this is correct and it's really all I'm saying.I really don't subscribe to the shadowy Svengali-like figures haunting the corridors of the BBC theory.I haven't had any experience of submiiting a sitcom script to have it rejected. I don't as a rule attempt them.
But there's always a first time...
How about this as a synopsis?
There's this family that sit around watching telly all day and they've got a son who runs a small time business in a home counties town. Out of the blue he gets a chance to make a docu-soap starring his bonkers family and his work mates.
Working title:
It ain't half-baked yet.
