Greetings Writers and those who Promote Us~
For reasons I don't quite wish to admit, I've seen a sh*t ton of reality television this summer. Everything from "Face Off" where radical, whiny artists of some kind I'm not sure what create gross, icky costumes/puppets and stuff for models. And have to all live in the same house while competing.
Then there are the various and sundry model walk-offs or whatever. And Chopped (one of my favs), Cupcakes Wars, Craft Wars, Fear Factor, Say Yes to the Dress, Say Yes to the Fat Girl Dress, various Hillbilly renditions of all of the above including something about "gypsies" which could easily be labelled "Trailer Park Trash Wedding (FORGIVE ME IF ONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR FAMILIES. I grew up in South East Kentucky. Ergo: I am allowed to make fun of people who would or should be from there and get themselves a tv show).
It's gotten me thinking .... what if you threw a bunch of WRITERS in a house, told them they had exactly a month to get:
1. An agent's contract
2. 10,000 Twitter followers
3. A viral FB page with over 100k "likes"
4. A minimum of 20 re-tweets per day
5. A feature interview on the Today Show or (bonus points) The Daily Show
6. A movie option
7. OH YEAH you have to write a 90k novel.
Let's just ponder the possibilities shall we?
The alcohol that would consumed? The egos that would be crushed? The introverts forced out from in front of their computer and made to interact? The caffeine bill? The cat memes?
It truly boggles the mind. Especially that cat meme thing....
You laugh...but I see it--The Writers' Cave LIVE with tears, extra marital sex, the works!
Whew, now, I can go watch Honey Boo Boo Chile---yes I am sickened and cannot take my eyes OFF it...
later
Liz
P.S. CONDITIONAL OFFER: THE STEWART REALTY SERIES BOOK 5 is available for Pre - Order on ARe...and releases Saturday, August 25!
For reasons I don't quite wish to admit, I've seen a sh*t ton of reality television this summer. Everything from "Face Off" where radical, whiny artists of some kind I'm not sure what create gross, icky costumes/puppets and stuff for models. And have to all live in the same house while competing.
Then there are the various and sundry model walk-offs or whatever. And Chopped (one of my favs), Cupcakes Wars, Craft Wars, Fear Factor, Say Yes to the Dress, Say Yes to the Fat Girl Dress, various Hillbilly renditions of all of the above including something about "gypsies" which could easily be labelled "Trailer Park Trash Wedding (FORGIVE ME IF ONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR FAMILIES. I grew up in South East Kentucky. Ergo: I am allowed to make fun of people who would or should be from there and get themselves a tv show).
It's gotten me thinking .... what if you threw a bunch of WRITERS in a house, told them they had exactly a month to get:
1. An agent's contract
2. 10,000 Twitter followers
3. A viral FB page with over 100k "likes"
4. A minimum of 20 re-tweets per day
5. A feature interview on the Today Show or (bonus points) The Daily Show
6. A movie option
7. OH YEAH you have to write a 90k novel.
Let's just ponder the possibilities shall we?
The alcohol that would consumed? The egos that would be crushed? The introverts forced out from in front of their computer and made to interact? The caffeine bill? The cat memes?
It truly boggles the mind. Especially that cat meme thing....
You laugh...but I see it--The Writers' Cave LIVE with tears, extra marital sex, the works!
Whew, now, I can go watch Honey Boo Boo Chile---yes I am sickened and cannot take my eyes OFF it...
later
Liz
P.S. CONDITIONAL OFFER: THE STEWART REALTY SERIES BOOK 5 is available for Pre - Order on ARe...and releases Saturday, August 25!
I've often wondered about a reality tv show with writers...but I think it would be far too boring watching people tapping away at their keyboards for hours on end. Great Post!
ReplyDeleteFrancene Carroll, author of Pleasure Island, which is coincidentally set on reality tv.
The boring actual writing bits would be severely edited, and the viewers would get to see the 'before' and 'after' bits, tantrums, tears, high-fives, and who's zoomin' who ... that sort of thing.
ReplyDelete... the really scary thing is that it just could work!
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI was watching Face Off a couple of weeks ago and was wondering the same thing! LOL I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. ;-P
But I love all of your ideas, especially about taking out the boring parts!