> Put another way: The skills required to create a scene in a few minutes are > quite different from those required to create a large work.
Oh, I agree 100%. >(They're much more akin to the skills you need for sketch > comedy writing, I should think.) Yes. There can be no 2 minute tragedies. I only claim it would be a little bit amusing. People writing novels is not amusing. Unless you're the one writing it, or like RSpec-ers desparately interested in writing one. (You and I would no doubt watch breathlessly if we were permitted to stare over the shoulder of William Gibson eight hours a day.) > If anybody's seen > *Staying Alive* [that ur-crappy *Saturday Night Fever* sequel], you might > remember that it revolves around a "Broadway show" that seems to involve a > bunch of random dance numbers and a lot of smoke -- it was like a full-scale > foreshadowing of "So You Think You Can Dance" or "Dancing With The Stars". I missed it. It sounds like a divine post-modern manifesto on panopticonism. > Now, if the show were about sketch comedy, that would be fantastic and I'd > probably watch. But it would bomb because everybody would know the payoffs > by the :15m mark... Yeah, they'd all be comedy sketches anyway. Funny note: I once listened to an interview of a screenwriter who got his start scripting a reality TV shows (some nanny thing). I assumed the editor did everything. No: they have writers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
