Ok, for some of you this will seem harsh, but bear with me. I don’t know any professional writers who have not, at some point, been approached with the line: “I have a great idea for a book. I give you the idea, you write the book, we split the profits 50/50, ok?”
There’s a reason no writer will accept this offer. First, most writing does not earn enough money to be splitting it! More importantly, the “idea” part is pretty much worthless. Any writer worth their salt can come up with ten pitches in ten minutes. All of us have a queue of books in our heads – the time and effort to get them on the page is the real challenge.
So what does this have to do with AI?
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How do you avoid writing a boring, uninteresting play?
I read more than 300 play submissions during our 2018 Little
Wonder Radio Play competition and there were an astonishing number that fell
into one of the three types:
Some has an interview and discovers it isn’t what it seems!
Someone is in a strange place and discovers they are/were
actually dead!
And worst of all…
Someone is waiting for something… but nothing happens!
But there have been some great plays like this!
All three of these story formats can (and have) be very successful – but they’re also very dangerous. In this article I’m going to talk about why your play about something waiting to be interviewed to get into somewhere only to discover they are actually dead is BOOOORING, and what you can do to avoid writing it again.[i]
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