personal clichés

[starlit__]

In selecting work for my portfolio, I had to read a lot of my own writing. There's an awkward, self-conscious, masturbatory pleasure in doing this, so I tried to read it in a critical way, as if someone else had written it. This led to me noticing a lot of repetition.

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[rioohki]

Barely related: Once I saw a job advertised on the BBC website to be a writer for River City.

I thought about it, then realised every single idea I had ended with neds being attacked by Optimus Prime.

[medievalshadow]

I think River City could use more neds being attacked by Optimus Prime, personally.

[starlit__]

I applied for that job! I am so fucking qualified to write ned love triangles.

[rioohki]

You're kidding!

I sometimes wish I'd applied for it, even just to mess about at the interview and suggest the strangest things, like renaming every male character 'Jim' in order to have a more realistic portrayal of Glasgow.

[starlit__]

Are you kidding? You need years of film-making experience just to get an interview! I estimate a few hundred people will have applied for that job.

[rioohki]

Technically I do have a few years of film/tv making experience...

...not at a professional level wherein I get all the Benjamins yo, but I did spend 4/5 years filming stuff inside and outside the studio instead of doing my degree.

[starlit__]

Then you should have gone for it! Trainee BBC jobs are pure gold.

[rioohki]

...this doesn't solve the Transformers problem though.

Now that I think of it, I'll answer the question of writing cliches.

My problem is that I'll try to write about things that I feel like I should have written about (exes) but never quite found a way that I was happy with, only to realise that I no longer have any strong feelings on the subject.

I did enjoy writing the skateboarding thing though, but that was a while back.

[starlit__]

Never write things you think you should write! Only things that are fun.