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Are you writing what you want to write? Is the story you're telling now the one you REALLY want to write? Or is the one you have a deep attachment to still floating around your head?
Sometimes we get a great idea, but we're afraid to write it because we let ourselves be convinced that nobody will ever want to buy it or make it because it's too soft or too off the wall or too whatever.
It's difficult to commit to an idea that, deep in your heart, you know will be a tough sell. Sometimes we let our fears dictate what we write. You have this idea you're crazy about, but you start writing an idea that you're also crazy about, but are convinced will be an easier sell or a better script to get an agent with.
There's no easy answer here. Some ideas we get are going to be hard to write. That's why we postpone them. Maybe it'll call for lots of research. If you hate research you'll start writing something that requires none or very little.
I think that diving into that special, difficult idea is the better way to go. It's easy for me to say that. But I know from personal experience how demoralizing it can be to have spent a few months or longer on a project while your mind keeps going back to that other idea.
It's a couple of weeks til 2004. Maybe for the new year it's time to introduce yourself to that old idea. |
