Boring Ramble Thread Title

I really like to write what I'm thinking. If you don't want to hear me just honestly talk about what's in my mind, don't read this. I don't mind. However, if you are interested in what I'm doing right now, the intricacies of writing sitcom characters, and my thoughts on dreamscapes, maybe give this a shot.

So I have not been on here in a while. I can't say I will after this either. I just have so many things going on, that I have to prioritize. Hell, I'm even dropping my usual summer camping for other priorities. Thing s you might be interested in are few. Still chugging away on Chapter 2 of The Narrative. Cant give a ETA, but it's not dead. I have a few games in progress, none too serious that I could talk specifics about them. Dont want to get anyone's hopes up. One interesting thing is a sitcom I'm writing for my schools film club, which I helped start. Basically anything creative I have my fingers in. Actually, I would highly recommend that everyone try and Write a TV show at one point or another. You learn so much about the medium itself that I can never look at a show the same way again. It a for the better though. I might leave updates on the show as it progresses. It's definitely happening, not another project I inevitably drop. It's almost homework in a way. More engaging and challenging then any of my other work at least.

Sitcom characters are supposed to be flawed. They are supposed to have abnormal character traits that they can't get over, and cause them to fail time and time again. Dwight from the office's social ineptitude. Leslie from parks and rec's overwhelming positivity. And who can forget the Bluth's insincerity? It's hard to write a character like this and still respect them. People in real life aren't like this, they learn from their mistakes and a actively make a effort to better themselves. It can be frustrating to write a character like this. You needs dog have a mindset of "their only human". For example, in my sitcom there is a character who is a furry. I'm not a big fan of furries, so initially I was against this. I was overruled, and then told to write a script with this character. It took a while for me to get used to acknowledging that there was so much comedic potential on a furry character that while may be considered "cringe humor", is not. Cringe humor is only that when you are embarrassed for the character. Once you understand that the character who is cringey is not embarrassed at all, either by ignorance, or in the furrys case not caring, you learn to respect the character for what they are, a character. A damn funny one. Let go of your inner passion to have everyone improve, because maybe that person doesn't want to be improved. Why force them if it's out of character?

I'm not sure if anyone can relate, but I've been having very detailed dreams since a child, only every once in a while, but when they happen I remember it perfectly. I never really understood why they happened, but they always took on a plot of their own, a full story which I understood was there, but was just shrouded enough that I couldn't predict what would happen next. I'm really good at predicting movie plots. It ruins my enjoyment sometimes of otherwise good movies. Well, I finally realized a factor that ties all the strange dreams together. Two things, the world it's in, and her.
The world is like nothing I have seem in a film or show. I think everyone has their special dream location, mine is a amalgamation of a pier, a carnival, and a starry night. Think if Gotham was a giant boardwalk on the side of an asteroid in the most beautiful nebula. Crime is rampant in my world. Not just any crime, but hate crime. My host for the dream is always owned by someone, for no reason other then a sick pleasure. If I ever am free, I'm still clutched in the poverty of the crowded streets in my world, much like a giant, sicker fantasy tavern. None of the ways I've tried to describe it accurately does. The feel is what's important. Think warm colors. Oranges and yellows. Think old, worn, but not rotten wood lining the floors, small gaps in between the panels. Think the loud drone of a million people going a million places. Think the quiet flow of water by a lakes shore. Think homely feelings in a place where you own nothing. Small shops selling strange goods, everything you can imagine for sale. Think black market, but this is where you live. Think about your own special place. It might not be perfect, but it's special to you beyond words, and you keep coming back to it.
The other factor is her. I'm not someone who abides by a strict sexuality, boys or girls are just categories no one really fits in. Despite this, it's always a her. A different face every time, but the same personality. The same deep, inner connection I have never Truely felt for another human being, but have always longed to. Sometimes she saves me from bonds. Sometimes I save her. Either way, we are always running. Running through the twisted carnival world, not explicitly hunted, but not left alone. Dreams vary, it's not a perfect formula, but she's always the same. I've always been a hopeless romantic, not without my fair share of relationships. Some more successful then others. But never have I dated, never have I loved anyone like her in my dreams. Shes not perfect, far from it, but she has a very real personality. Shes the yin to my yang, but not in the most direct way possible. A little bit of grey area is just perfect. God, I sound like a lovestruck kid with someone I've never even met. I'm not going to psychoanalyze myself.

My dreams are not larger stories helping me work through my problems. They don't fight my inner demons.

Your real dreams don't either. Instead, they give you a glimpse of your perspectives of things. They show you, in a detached way, how you view life. Use that knowledge as you will. I'm going to ponder it, and wait for another similar dream.

 

Can you explain it in a way that isn't rambling nonsensically?

 

Not really, no.

Tl;Dr : I'm writing a web series sitcom. Sitcom cringe characters are secretly great social commentary. Some dreams are crazy realistic. Whats your dream world like? Mine is super damn weird.

 

woah that's deep
(I actually read the whole thing.)
I think there's something wrong with this, though:

 

Nice catch, thanks!

 

[Insert flying chicken monsters with human intelligence and laser cannons that are currently causing a genocide of all humans]

 

Hmm, what are you writing this sitcom for?

Also do sitcom characters have to be flawed? What about a sitcom where normal, everyday people meet a person that is seemingly perfect? That has plenty of plot potential yet aside from a "perfect person" which many strive to be, it's just about normal people.
Granted I don't watch sitcoms so Idk.

And your city, try Ankh-Morpork. Aside from hate crimes being turned into only murders or robbery, they're really quite the same.
It's in the differences that you realize your similarities.

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And if a romantic fantasy through an imperfect yet fantastically amazing world is your way of interpreting things, what does that say about yourself?
Are you an innocent fellow who believes in interesting worlds and relationships?
Or are you tired or resigned to a lot of the plain-ness in life and simply looking for an escape?
Or perhaps you notice the little things and simply amplify all the positives and negatives so you can appreciate them all?
Who knows. The person you know least well is often yourself.

What do you want? Who do you think you are? Who do you want to be?
Important questions that are all too hard to answer.


your ramblings have infected me :p

 

That's a lot of questions, I'll try my best to answer a few. I'm writing a sitcom for my high schools Film Club, entitled "Film Club" (real imaginative right?). And I have to wonder, wouldn't a perfect person be intrinsically flawed? If you are perfect, you don't have any room to grow. Actually, I would rather be deeply flawed then be perfect because of that.

I haven't read Ring World yet, but that might be an apt description. If you took Ankh-Morpork, sliced it into smaller pieces, stacked those pieces on top of each other, and gave it a little more of a bayou boardwalk feel, they would be pretty similar.

I'm not sure what I feel about myself from my dreams. I'm not someone who thinks their dreams help them solve their problems or are a perfect outlook on how they see life, but there is some credit there. I see how my dreamscape connects to my worldview, I just still have to figure out exactly what that is.

 

READ DISCWORLD. Terry Prattchett is such a sarcastically funny guy. He also does pretty good commentary on how our society works, but it's all hidden very well as plot.
What would you say to someone that doesn't dream? Or at least rarely does and doesn't remember much?

 

Ill put it on my list!

You always dream when you sleep, whether you remember it or not mostly depends on when you go to sleep, so you can time it so you wake up right as the REM stage ends. the dreams you do remember are the last 30 minuets of REM. Any other lack of dreaming has to do with memory genetics. My dreams are very vivid, for reasons I'm not fully aware of. some people can only lucid dream. Some can never remember their dreams. It's different for everyone, and while it might be tied to creativity, I'm not really sure.