Going to a Higher Place
May. 22nd, 2007 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botiasFrom Jane Espenson's blog:
If I were sitting down to write a House spec, I think I'd start by listing emotional moments I want to see that character go through. Regret? Genuine undistanced anger? A need for a human connection? What would cause that emotion? What would that emotion cause? I'd start working backwards from there. Notice that I am not starting with a disease.
Me, apparently I sit down to write and go, 'Hmmm, what would make Buffy do Spike?'
Options:
1) Arrange for Buffy to be really depressed and disconnected and flailing
2) Make it her solemn Chosen duty
3) Put her under a spell
If I were sitting down to write a House spec, I think I'd start by listing emotional moments I want to see that character go through. Regret? Genuine undistanced anger? A need for a human connection? What would cause that emotion? What would that emotion cause? I'd start working backwards from there. Notice that I am not starting with a disease.
Me, apparently I sit down to write and go, 'Hmmm, what would make Buffy do Spike?'
Options:
1) Arrange for Buffy to be really depressed and disconnected and flailing
2) Make it her solemn Chosen duty
3) Put her under a spell
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Date: 2007-05-22 11:35 pm (UTC)