My husband and I were discussing Star Trek Enterprise. I don't like it, because of how they treat Vulcans and because the Patriarchy is strong in that one. :-(
Anyway, he said that when you have material to write 24 episodes, but the network only gives you 15, you have to cut some essential things and get "lazy" to get it written. Some things like dialogue and character development automatically suffer.
I was thinking that if you know you only have 15 episodes, you write the outline to know what you want and need to tell, and then divide that into the 15 episodes and write the story to support the skeleton of the story, the individual character arcs, and how the adventures support that, instead of writing individual episodes.
I suppose that is what all these people have been trying to say with story structure and plot and all that :-D I just needed that comment to understand what they meant.
I think I'll be able to write my story when I treat it as a tv series, and not as a Book. :-D
