On Following Your Dreams Part II (a work in progress)

Kat and I keep discussing running off to California to write TV. Having a little understanding of how the system works, I am well aware that writing something right away does not happen -- after all think of all the talent out there, and the people you have to fit in with and the endless politics of it all -- but it occurs to me that if I wanted to do it, I am going to need to write some spec scripts. 


Now, being the proponent of practice that I am, I have decided to work with shows that have been off the air for a bit in order to get in my necessary practice. So, looking at my list of shows, I have to remove everything currently running. The list comes out as follows:


Angel

Battlestar Galactica (2004 reimagining)
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Caprica
Coupling
Dollhouse
Firefly
Friends
Legend of the Seeker
Pushing Daisies 

Dirty Sexy Money

Scrubs
Sex and the City
Studio Sixty on the Sunset Strip
The West Wing
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Will and Grace
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Black Adder

Sports Night

Now, it has to be a show I know relatively well that has a point where I can imagine a relatively good point for a stand alone episode -- which again narrows down the list. 

Angel
Battlestar Galactica (2004 reimagining)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly
Friends
Legend of the Seeker
Pushing Daisies 

Scrubs
Sex and the City
Veronica Mars
Will and Grace

Last issue: what kind of writing do I want to do? Comedy has so much to offer in terms of practicing making people laugh, but as a naturally dry person, without an eye for slapstick humor and a preference for nuance in comedy, I suppose the best thing to do would be to focus on the drama/dramady. This makes the list look like so:

Angel
Battlestar Galactica (2004 reimagining)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly
Legend of the Seeker
Pushing Daisies

Veronica Mars

That's seven shows to write a spec script for. 

Now, I have been writing my own show about my generation (the 20 somethings basically) and our struggles to figure out who we are. Its a half hour comedy and really its only funny to me. But I like it, and I have a lot of ideas for how its going to go and I don't want to get too distracted from it, but I think that in all honesty, writing things for shows that will give me good practice for the kind of things I would be doing anyways, I should probably focus on that. 

Then again, maybe I can do both...