I actually find it easy to conceptualize an idea, I've been told I'm an abstract thinker.
When it's time to make a narrative project, I can very often see start to finish, in broad strokes, in my head right away. I also give people a lot of credit for their feelings. That is to say; I'm not one of those people that believe that there needs to be a material element driving the emotion. I'm perfectly aware that more often than not; the emotional logic comes first and is then intellectually justified in material terms.
This attitude is not always great for writing TV. In TV-land everything needs to be materially based, because the audience has a tenancy to be big (if you're luck) and different people have totally different fields of reality. We actually live in a world where the other people living in that world, live in a completely different world. It's an unsettling thought and there's no standard for objectivity (sorry, I know some people think there is, but that's just actually a part of their skewed field of reality). It's actually that very gap in understanding that makes us individuals.
All this makes formulaic approaches to narrative difficult for someone like me, who finds the logi of materialism to be false anyway.
Point is; it really made me think about that phrase; the devil's in the details.
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