Went with my friend Robert, who was in from Palm Springs to the new Trader Vic's last night. It's pretty awesome. They had a DJ playing and you know- mai tai's. We talked about the pilot I'm writing and he had all these great questions I hadn't thought about. The best one, I think: "Where do you see these people five years from now?" Probably the best question you can ask someone writing a pilot.
I'm nearly done with the first draft and I made a mistake that I'm starting to correct. The original episode centered on a dinner party- Joyce's "The Dead" with plates of cocaine, but all the interesting stuff seemed to be happening after the party. That is, in a future episode. Well, there are no future episodes in Pilot-ville- just one stab to lay out what the feel of the show is, who these people are and what the dramatic question of the show is.
I think I'm getting there, but this is the first thing I've ever written that I really want to see on TV. I would watch this show. Even though the reason I'm writing the pilot is to really just serve as a calling card of what I can do for agents/producers, I'm really starting to like these characters and the fun of talking about class in America. So, I'm trying to really nail it. Which is good. Which is fun.
Robert hated the title, so I think I'm changing it to something else.
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Went with my friend Robert, who was in from Palm Springs to the new Trader Vic's last night. It's pretty awesome. They had a DJ playing and you know- mai tai's. We talked about the pilot I'm writing and he had all these great questions I hadn't thought about. The best one, I think: "Where do you see these people five years from now?" Probably the best question you can ask someone writing a pilot.