Writing a TV pilot: Day 1

I'm starting to work on a pilot for a TV series. I think my biggest issue in life and writing is lack of decisiveness, e.g. I came up with at least 10 loglines I would like to write in more depth, but I'm not obsessed with any of them. Should I keep brainstorming ideas? Analyze why I am dissatisfied with current ones? Watch more online masterclasses?
Where do I start when it comes to writing a TV pilot?

 

Write down your favorite 5 ideas on slips of paper. Toss them into a hat. Pick one. Write.

(Extra words to make the required 20 words per post.)

 

I sometimes use Iching when at a crossroad, but can't say the answers are precise, hat will do I guess.

 

After many decades of practice, I am an expert on procrastination. Waiting to be obsessed by an idea is procrastination. Brainstorming more ideas when you have ten that interest you is procrastination. Analyzing your dissatisfaction is procrastination. Watching more TV is procrastination. Seeking answers on how to proceed via Iching, tarot, astrology, numerology, and online forums is procrastination. I've done it all except watch TV, because I don't have one.

There is one solution to putting off writing whatever the heck it is you want to write: sit down and put words on paper.

The Grand Old Lady of Procrastination Has Spoken, er Written.

Seriously, Pixit. You can do this. Good luck and happy writing.

 

I consulted the (winter) hat and it was a logline about the post-break up reality of a couple and the effects it has on their close-knit group of friends. Most of my recent loglines had to do with a female protagonist making a big (or risky, depending on the point of view) change in her life. E.g. about a young woman leaving an abusive relationship or marriage and deciding to apply to the police academy. My first attempt at writing a TV pilot was few years ago, about a family about to close down the local cafebar they own, but due to a mild natural disaster they end up staying in business. Wasn't great writing, but wasn't horrible either.
I started writing the scenes (in chronological order) for some of the loglines, I think I was writing them to get me to THE scene where most of the conflict or emotion or intensity is happening. So I will be writing few of those emotionally or situationally intense scenes first and, if I do it successfully, I'll then decide a final version of the logline and write the rest of the screenplay, if that makes sense.

 

I wrote around 15 scenes so far, reminds me of a sketch (drawing) of a first quarter of a first draft. Don't know if retyping from paper to Word is considered rewriting but i'll definitely need to do more versions. I'm currently writing to figure out the themes, pov and the characters. And I noticed there are recurring interior locations, kind of like in a sitcom (it's not supposed to be a sitcom). And I was thinking these days about the different ways a dialogue is written in film and TV, and then in plays. Film (maybe also TV) dialogue is often minimalistic I think, reveals the necessary information but relies on the visuals (and whatever the particular movie consists of) to convey the story. Play dialogue is much more detailed and explanatory, and I think the costume, set design etc. of a staged play is rarely the same as described in the original text (not saying it isn't inspired by the text). When I'd overdo it with stage directions while attempting to write a play over the years, I'd often get asked why is it that I am trying to direct a play instead of writing it.

 

I am new here, started working on a new script recently, actually one that I stopped working on a year ago
I am looking for coach or like a partner to help me as I work on it
I am from Nigeria

 

Good luck.

 

Welcome, Jemimah.