I was inspired by Ali's post to write about something that I have noticed(sadly) watching Television. When I think about writing, and being a writer, I think about logging odd hours, writer's block, and writing a novel, a short story, a memoir, an essay, those sorts of pieces of writing. What I never thought about was writing a script, either for a movie, or a television show. That must be really challenging(duh). But seriously, I was thinking about it, having this sort of epiphany, relating the difficulty these writers(collaborating must make it even more difficult) have in conveying what they want to realistically. Then I started thinking about the difficult that I have in my dialogues with making it sound realistic and believeable, and I thought about what a challenge that really is. To pass dialogue across as whoever your characters are, so that anyone can believe what they are saying is rather realistic. It's hard to think about how we ACTUALLY talk when you stop and think about it. So, the problems I struggle with in my writing are not as juvenile as I was thinking they were. That is certainly a relief.

So this is probably such a lame blog, but I was just sitting watching...Gossip Girl I confess, and I started thinking about it and how hard it must be to capture the dialogue of upper east side high school students in a way that people that age believe it. Not so easy. So writers of all levels and abilities, writing about whatever they are writing about, face challenges.