A Tales From the Darkside Episode I'd Rather Forget

[scottedelman]

I got an e-mail this weekend from someone asking about my Tales From the Darkside episode "Baker's Dozen," which originally aired on November 24, 1986. It's the only one of my three episodes I haven't already shared about here. There's a reason for that. (You can find information about the other two, "Fear of Floating" and "My Ghost Writer the

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[karen_w_newton]

I went to a panel at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference where someone asked about writing screenplays. The writer on the panel said that you should only write screenplays if you're willing to give up control of the story. He said it's not like a novel where the editor works with the writer on any desired changes. It's more like you've sold a house and the person who bought it can tear it down or remodel it without ever asking your opinion. That told me right there that I didn't want to write screenplays.

Sounds like you found out the hard way.

Yes a transcript of your orginal story would be good,but if you can't that's alright

[anonymous]

Hmm I never knew writers hated their own work even if it ends up on t.v

I would've put my name but I'm not computer lilliterate on these blogs

[anonymous]

Same person who posted that long post above under anonymous.
I asked for a transcript when I emailed you my email address has the word art in it.
Intersting info from your side of the story about "Bakers Dozen".
Keep up the good work.
I hope I didn't make you feel worse by my comments about the episode to only make you feel worse, that wasn't my intention if I did Scott.
The "Bakers Dozen" story is a favorite of mine anyway as just a story.

Re: I would've put my name but I'm not computer lilliterate on these blogs

[scottedelman]

Oh, you'd be surprised by how many people discover that success on TV or in the movies can be more painful than failure. (Not that I feel I was necessarily successful there, because I was involved there so briefly.)

I think it was Charles Beaumont, who was responsible for so many great Twilight Zone scripts, who said, "Achieving success in Hollywood is like climbing a pile of manure to pluck one perfect rose from the top, only once you get there, you discover that you have lost the sense of smell."

And as for writers no long liking their own work, I think if you don't look back at work done 10 or 20 years ago and wince a little, even if it was the best you could do at the time, you haven't grown. For me, there's always been a sense of, gee, I could do that so much better now.

So there's no need to apologize for having caused me to look back!