What do you feel is the line to draw where original idea faces a road block. Maybe other avenues are more reality. I am faced with this maybe too soon to tell. I wrote a sit com for TV. Since I do not live in Hollywood and have been well advised that it would be impossible to be a sit com writer with out living there. I do take issue with this limitation and refuse to believe it entirely. I wrote my sit com for the area I live in to be produced on local access TV. I figure living in college town and one brimming with talent that this could be pulled off here. What has been percolating to the top is that I would have a better chance of producing it as a stage play. So my gut says stick to what my original idea was but practicality my rule differently. How do others relate to this? Oh and as I am looking for characters the willing one is just very different that what I have in mind...do I change that to suit the circumstance?
Filmmaking / Directing : Compromising, shifting ideas by Kahish Kverdasmith
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You have found the solution - produce the show locally. When people tell you it's impossible to be a sitCom writer without living in Los Angeles they mean the way the shows work is the staff writers all meet everyday in the writers room. If you cannot show up to the work site it's impossible to get that job. I suspect you will have similar restrictions with YOUR show. I know you will be open to read scripts from other writers not living locally, but realistically how many of those script will you make? Realistically you will make your scripts and not script written by people in other cities. At least at the beginning. Then, when you are producing a show a week, you will want to hire locally so you can all meet to go over each script. The odds are you will use scripts written by your writing staff before you use scripts written by people you don't know. Exactly like the shows in Los Angeles and New York. I love your idea of producing the show locally and letting it grow. When your show takes off and gets a network deal you can continue to break from the old ways and hire writers who do not live where your writers room is.
I know a few people who have writing gigs on big shows and it seems the best way to become a successful writer, in any medium, is to write a ton of stuff and get as much of it produced as possible. Rik is absolutely right that producing what you have now locally is the way to go. After a lot of projects will you start to hit a stride and some barriers will come down. Hope that helps.
I appreciate both of your comments. Thank you for taking the time and it really helps to have a little wind in the sails.
So when do you shoot your first episode?
Nothing is impossible just keep swimming (Nemo).
Thanks for boost. I do have a gut feeling that all is going along as it should which currently lacks all pieces at this time to schedule a first shoot. For this project I do not expect to have anything tangible going til next summer. Live ducks do not stay in their rows.