"You should write a book about everything that goes on here!"
I have no doubt that in all kinds of professional settings, those words (or a variation thereof) are spoken among the battle-hardened veterans of the job. You name the career, and I am certain that there are stories about the workplace.
Just look at all the "workplace" shows that have been on TV in just the past few years. It's one of the most common settings because so many of us have experience in the genre. Almost all of us know what it is to go to a workplace, deal with co-workers and superiors, contend with obstacles, and balance a social life with a professional one.
Some of these workplace stories--comedic, dramatic, or some mixture of the two--focus on sites that we associate with high drama: a hospital, a police station, a government agency, and the like.
But many others focus on the most mundane of places: a small paper company, a community college, a municipal parks department, and so on.
My daughter and I have noticed something, though: of all the workplace dramas, comedies, and "dramedies," there have been very few ones about a public high school. Yes, I'm sure you're naming some right now, but how many of those are decades old? Welcome Back, Kotter and the White Shadow haven't been on the air in a long time.
Rather than wait for a show about public high school I'd like to watch, I decided that I would just write one myself.
It's a little bit new--both the idea of writing something that's not science-fiction, and writing a screenplay--but I guess I just feel like writing it. And what better reason could there be than that?
Be seeing you!
I have no doubt that in all kinds of professional settings, those words (or a variation thereof) are spoken among the battle-hardened veterans of the job. You name the career, and I am certain that there are stories about the workplace.
Just look at all the "workplace" shows that have been on TV in just the past few years. It's one of the most common settings because so many of us have experience in the genre. Almost all of us know what it is to go to a workplace, deal with co-workers and superiors, contend with obstacles, and balance a social life with a professional one.
Some of these workplace stories--comedic, dramatic, or some mixture of the two--focus on sites that we associate with high drama: a hospital, a police station, a government agency, and the like.
But many others focus on the most mundane of places: a small paper company, a community college, a municipal parks department, and so on.
My daughter and I have noticed something, though: of all the workplace dramas, comedies, and "dramedies," there have been very few ones about a public high school. Yes, I'm sure you're naming some right now, but how many of those are decades old? Welcome Back, Kotter and the White Shadow haven't been on the air in a long time.
Rather than wait for a show about public high school I'd like to watch, I decided that I would just write one myself.
It's a little bit new--both the idea of writing something that's not science-fiction, and writing a screenplay--but I guess I just feel like writing it. And what better reason could there be than that?
Be seeing you!
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