Comments on: Tales from the Writers’ Room http://froonium.com/?p=368 TV writer/producer Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:56:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: FrooniumRicky http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-2283 FrooniumRicky Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:27:02 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-2283 Oh, come on in. The writers room is a Friendly place. Really. Honest. Mary Sue is almost completely healed. In fact, she's now running a writers room of her own (and constantly beating up <i>her</i> staff about Not Having Enough Conflict). (sings) <i>Cir-cle of liiiiife...</i> Thanks for the comment <i>and</i> the cliche! Oh, come on in. The writers room is a Friendly place. Really. Honest. Mary Sue is almost completely healed. In fact, she’s now running a writers room of her own (and constantly beating up her staff about Not Having Enough Conflict). (sings) Cir-cle of liiiiife…

Thanks for the comment and the cliche!

]]> By: RitziCortez http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-2281 RitziCortez Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:43:28 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-2281 Well, this has just put me off going near any kind of writers room for a few years! Fantastic insight into how it all works though :) RitziCx ps, (apols for the cliche but I'm going to say it anyway) Frickin love your work Ricky x Well, this has just put me off going near any kind of writers room for a few years!

Fantastic insight into how it all works though :)

RitziCx

ps, (apols for the cliche but I’m going to say it anyway) Frickin love your work Ricky x

]]> By: Steve http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1355 Steve Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:07:18 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1355 Not have any big idea write now. Not have any big idea write now.

]]> By: Straycatt http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1206 Straycatt Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:16:00 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1206 Sorry you weren't at the con more, you got pretty swamped on Sunday by longtime fans and cast members from what I saw. Oh, and the wife told me you tried to make off with my daughter in a Mombo bag ... Bad Ricky ... :P -Adam Sorry you weren’t at the con more, you got pretty swamped on Sunday by longtime fans and cast members from what I saw. Oh, and the wife told me you tried to make off with my daughter in a Mombo bag … Bad Ricky … :P

-Adam

]]> By: Steve http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1198 Steve Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:11:56 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1198 I REALLY need to check your site more often. But I'm only 11 days late. I REALLY need to check your site more often. But I’m only 11 days late.

]]> By: Lee Stewart http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1191 Lee Stewart Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:16:30 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1191 That's a happy story, thanks! Lee Newbee is following in Mary Sue's footsteps, writing award-winning spec scripts and looking for a chance to get his foot in the door. My new writing goal: 10 spec scrips in 2010! That’s a happy story, thanks! Lee Newbee is following in Mary Sue’s footsteps, writing award-winning spec scripts and looking for a chance to get his foot in the door.

My new writing goal: 10 spec scrips in 2010!

]]> By: FrooniumRicky http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1156 FrooniumRicky Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:06:41 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1156 <i>Breathe,</i> Courtney! Breathe, Courtney!

]]> By: FrooniumRicky http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1155 FrooniumRicky Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:05:11 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1155 Well, you can <i>ask</i>... (But hold not thy breath...) Yeah, sometime (notice I don't say "sometime <i>soon</i>") I'll have to relate the prequels in the Mary Sue saga... how she wrote several spec scripts on her own for all sorts of series, got good enough to land an agent with 'em and catch the eye of someone on <i>Space Slayers</i> who then said "sure, we're looking for new talent, let her come in and pitch," etc. She came in with a dozen ideas -- some fleshed out in detail, some just "arenas" (story hooks) -- and didn't actually pitch all 12. The first two got shot down quickly because Sam and the staff already had something(s) similar in the works (happens all the time); the third just didn't turn Sam on ("A time travel paradox? I hate time travel paradoxes!"), but the fourth hit the jackpot. (And even though the first three didn't sell, they were developed well enough so that Sam & Co. could see that Mary Sue <i>truly knew the series</i>, so they were already favorably inclined to hire Mary Sue by the time she got to a pitch Sam liked. Well, you can ask… (But hold not thy breath…)

Yeah, sometime (notice I don’t say “sometime soon“) I’ll have to relate the prequels in the Mary Sue saga… how she wrote several spec scripts on her own for all sorts of series, got good enough to land an agent with ‘em and catch the eye of someone on Space Slayers who then said “sure, we’re looking for new talent, let her come in and pitch,” etc.

She came in with a dozen ideas — some fleshed out in detail, some just “arenas” (story hooks) — and didn’t actually pitch all 12. The first two got shot down quickly because Sam and the staff already had something(s) similar in the works (happens all the time); the third just didn’t turn Sam on (“A time travel paradox? I hate time travel paradoxes!”), but the fourth hit the jackpot. (And even though the first three didn’t sell, they were developed well enough so that Sam & Co. could see that Mary Sue truly knew the series, so they were already favorably inclined to hire Mary Sue by the time she got to a pitch Sam liked.

]]> By: FS1 http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1140 FS1 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:45:15 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1140 Now that I know to refresh often, this page keeps changing so much! Hooray for correct titles. :-) Now that I know to refresh often, this page keeps changing so much! Hooray for correct titles. :-)

]]> By: FrooniumRicky http://froonium.com/?p=368&cpage=1#comment-1139 FrooniumRicky Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:44:04 +0000 http://froonium.com/?p=368#comment-1139 I blame Monday morning and not enough coffee. Fixed! I blame Monday morning and not enough coffee. Fixed!

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