This week marks the end of my cycle of TV writing classes through the UCLA Extension, and I thought I'd post a quick wrap-up as I come to the end of the fourth class. I last wrote at length about these classes back in January, when I'd just started and was plotting an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Well, I've now written the full script of that episode, and then gone on to write a pilot script for the third and fourth classes in the sequence. The same instructor taught all four classes, so the format of doing things was consistent across all four, and the pilot classes were fairly easy to navigate given that I'd already done that style of plotting in the first and second classes.
Another advantage of these classes, as I mentioned back in August, was that they gave me the tools to develop more stories in this way. As a result, I plotted three TV shows during TV III, and during TV IV I wrote three pilots, working on my pages for class in the mornings and then on the pages for my secondary story ideas in the evenings. This feels like a lot of output, given that the last time I produced anything comparable was in the first half of 2022, when I finished a novel I'd started the previous November.
TV seems to be my preferred medium now, as my attempts to tackle a big revision on that novel seem to be taking a lot longer - but on the plus side, it feels like this new version could lend itself to the TV format.
I'd also quite like to tackle the feature screenplay format again soon, but I don't think I can justify taking that class through UCLA Extension, given that I should really start saving more cash now.
In any case, now that I don't have the homework and reading for class to do, I should once again have more time on Sundays for this blog, as well as other types of writing. I'll be back to posting my thoughts on writing, football, politics and comics as I get back into the swing of things here - and maybe someday soon I'll be able to announce some good news? There's nothing on the horizon, but it'll come soon, I'm sure, whether that's a new job or something even more exciting.
Or I'll get bored of banging my head against this novel and sign up for the those feature-writing classes after all. Who even knows?
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