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LJ Idol Exhibit A Week 2
Jan. 31st, 2013 07:09 pmAmong the many things I do, I am a writer. My husband has the lofty title of writer of stuff but I can hold my own in just about any genre and have done so a number of times in the past.
One of the advantages of being married/partners with a writer is that you have someone to bounce ideas off of. It sometimes helps to say out loud to someone else some idea or concept that sounds so cool in your head. The act of bringing it out for others to examine can be hard to do but I have learned that sometime just saying it out loud makes me realize either how bad an idea it is or how rife the concept would be with problems that I haven’t worked out yet.
Peter is always honest with me when I tell him my ideas. And I do get “well that sucks” from him but it is always with an idea or two of how to make it un-suck or another way of looking at the idea that might spark a way to get it to work.
Then there are the ideas that are cool concepts but they really aren’t much more than that. We never abandon those but put them back in the back of the brain to mull over until we can find a use for them.
And we never know where something that we came up with is going to eventually go.
For example a number of years ago a producer we know gave us the parameters for what a cable station was looking to produce as a new show. We had the demographic they thought they could get and what they would like to add to it. They gave us the “we want it on the cheap” speech. So Peter and I sat down kicking some ideas around and a silly one that we had come up with before but didn’t know what to do with seem to fit the bill.
We worked out the concept and what a few episodes would be like. We had the characters pretty much sorted out. We really liked the whole thing.
And so did the company for a while until there was a regime change, which is one of the fastest ways to get your project killed in Hollywood.
So we tabled it. A number of years later we adapted one of the stories into a superhero anthology entitled “Masked”.
Well early last year or late 2011 we got a call to see if we had done anything with the property. We hadn’t and there was renewed interest because Stan Lee was starting his own channel on You-Tube.
Thus Headcases came back out of our imaginations and is currently being worked on to be a series on the Stan Lee World of Super Heroes. It is really interesting to see this idea that we thought was not going to go anywhere make something of itself.
Headcases is about a bar called the DMZ where heroes and villains come to drink and unwind. No cowls, no capes and any problems that they have with each other are left outside the door. And woe betide the person who breaks the peace. It is a lot of fun to work on.
So any idea that a writer has is never really out of play. You just have to throw the small ones back until they get big enough to be of some use to you.
This has been my entry into the LJ Idol for this week. I hope you enjoy it and if you want to know more about Headcases, feel free to ask. I do appreciate your vote
One of the advantages of being married/partners with a writer is that you have someone to bounce ideas off of. It sometimes helps to say out loud to someone else some idea or concept that sounds so cool in your head. The act of bringing it out for others to examine can be hard to do but I have learned that sometime just saying it out loud makes me realize either how bad an idea it is or how rife the concept would be with problems that I haven’t worked out yet.
Peter is always honest with me when I tell him my ideas. And I do get “well that sucks” from him but it is always with an idea or two of how to make it un-suck or another way of looking at the idea that might spark a way to get it to work.
Then there are the ideas that are cool concepts but they really aren’t much more than that. We never abandon those but put them back in the back of the brain to mull over until we can find a use for them.
And we never know where something that we came up with is going to eventually go.
For example a number of years ago a producer we know gave us the parameters for what a cable station was looking to produce as a new show. We had the demographic they thought they could get and what they would like to add to it. They gave us the “we want it on the cheap” speech. So Peter and I sat down kicking some ideas around and a silly one that we had come up with before but didn’t know what to do with seem to fit the bill.
We worked out the concept and what a few episodes would be like. We had the characters pretty much sorted out. We really liked the whole thing.
And so did the company for a while until there was a regime change, which is one of the fastest ways to get your project killed in Hollywood.
So we tabled it. A number of years later we adapted one of the stories into a superhero anthology entitled “Masked”.
Well early last year or late 2011 we got a call to see if we had done anything with the property. We hadn’t and there was renewed interest because Stan Lee was starting his own channel on You-Tube.
Thus Headcases came back out of our imaginations and is currently being worked on to be a series on the Stan Lee World of Super Heroes. It is really interesting to see this idea that we thought was not going to go anywhere make something of itself.
Headcases is about a bar called the DMZ where heroes and villains come to drink and unwind. No cowls, no capes and any problems that they have with each other are left outside the door. And woe betide the person who breaks the peace. It is a lot of fun to work on.
So any idea that a writer has is never really out of play. You just have to throw the small ones back until they get big enough to be of some use to you.
This has been my entry into the LJ Idol for this week. I hope you enjoy it and if you want to know more about Headcases, feel free to ask. I do appreciate your vote
