I had a revelatory experience today: writing a pitch based on nothing more than a character and the vaguest of direction: "not necessarily
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canonical, accessible to most audiences." It was an interesting experience sorting out, okay, what matters about this guy, what do franchise
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non-experts like me know about him, why does he do what he does in this thing? And then putting together a satisfying story outline around
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that? I'd never done anything like that before. And I didn't really go in with any ideas. Sat down, did a brain dump, got into it.
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I called it "revelatory" because, really, it was one of the purest examples of "stop waiting for the muse, do your goddamn work" I've ever
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experienced. I was like, okay, gotta get this done. I know how story works. I know the character. Im not inventing something out of whole
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cloth. I can do this. And then I did. That hit me in kind of a big way?
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I know not everyone can work like that, so Im not making Big Statements About Writing but "do your goddamn work" is how I operate because
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I'm lazy and a hack. So yeah. Anyway. I dont have a point. I just thought that was cool.
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Also it's really dope pitching established characters. I like not having to invent entire universes sometimes.
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cosmogony is great and all but sometimes one likes to take a little break from it
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its just for the volume im working at right now it's nice to have parameters
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