This soap opera is turning out to be harder to write than I thought; I think the problem is that I'm enjoying it too much. The plan was to simply bash out the episodes, quickly, and then go back and tweak them. What's actually happened is I care about the characters too much and I'm writing them carefully. It takes ages.
The other problem is that it's already turning into a comedy, which was never the plan. In fact, there's a scene in episode 2 featuring Johnny and Ellie (to be played by Josh and Izzy) which is possibly the funniest 3 minutes I've ever written. I need to decide sharpish whether this is going to be a comedy or not, because the expectations change either way - it can't just have occasional 'funny bits' in it, I don't think.
Either way, three episodes nailed. 27 to go. On schedule, but it's very rare that I get a whole full, free day like this to write. Can't help but feel I could have done more.
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