I’ve been in a real slump lately. Even so, I’ve been needing to also do a lot of writing for various things. This set of circumstances has led to my lack of blogging. However, tonight (or rather last night) I was struck by something on Erin‘s blog. It was a little news piece you can read about here or here. It inspired me to try a little writing exercise that I have now spent way too much time on but that I’ve really enjoyed. Here’s what I did.
Imagine that the great Aaron Sorkin show, The West Wing, was real and current and hadn’t progressed beyond season 2. Now, imagine that this piece of news got brought up amongst those characters in today’s political environment. What might that look like? That’s what I did and wrote it out in script form. It’s not a complete episode, just a teaser and the first act, but if it was I would entitle it “Alien Philosophies.”
Click below and enjoy!
There is no way I could possibly tell you how happy this made me. It’s going to be a good day. Thank you for this, even if you did lose hours upon hours of valuable sleep.
I haven’t gotten a chance to read this yet, but I am super excited! If it’s season 2, I’m hoping for an appearance by dreamy Sam Seaborn…
You nailed it.
You know those characters.
Love it! Really enjoyed reading this. Very entertaining–much more so than SLBS dramas! Ha! I’m ready to read the rest of it!