Greenwolf103
Hi, Everyone,
I don't normally post here because I've just been reading and felt I couldn't really comment on too much. But something's come up for me and I really don't know how to deal with it.
I have this fantasy script I wrote. I got the go-ahead to submit it to someone who offered to give it a read. That's not the problem.
What IS the problem is that I've been wrestling with the idea of even putting this script out there. The reason for my hesitation? Politics. The protag and antag in my story are similar to two head political leaders (one of them a fallen leader, I might add) that we hear all about today. Now, mind you, I wrote this script long before these guys became news. (Well one of them, anyway.) But because it's going out NOW and they're in the news NOW, people might say "oh, yeah, you just wrote some kind of fantasy with these people in it" or something. These characters are similar to their real life counterpaqrts, but only because one of them is the son of a former leader and they are both intent on destroying the other. But that's where the similarities end.
This story is my original creation. I didn't use any kind of outside influence in writing it. I even had to draw my own map and make up my own names. But I'm worried that the above is the kind of reaction it will get.
I realize movies take time to be made. And that this story in particular may never even get made. Still, it's a worry I have.
Lewis Carroll had the same thing happen with his "Alice in Wonderland" stories. Though I can't really say for sure if that really was his purpose with those characters.
Any advice?
--Dawn
I don't normally post here because I've just been reading and felt I couldn't really comment on too much. But something's come up for me and I really don't know how to deal with it.
I have this fantasy script I wrote. I got the go-ahead to submit it to someone who offered to give it a read. That's not the problem.
What IS the problem is that I've been wrestling with the idea of even putting this script out there. The reason for my hesitation? Politics. The protag and antag in my story are similar to two head political leaders (one of them a fallen leader, I might add) that we hear all about today. Now, mind you, I wrote this script long before these guys became news. (Well one of them, anyway.) But because it's going out NOW and they're in the news NOW, people might say "oh, yeah, you just wrote some kind of fantasy with these people in it" or something. These characters are similar to their real life counterpaqrts, but only because one of them is the son of a former leader and they are both intent on destroying the other. But that's where the similarities end.
This story is my original creation. I didn't use any kind of outside influence in writing it. I even had to draw my own map and make up my own names. But I'm worried that the above is the kind of reaction it will get.
I realize movies take time to be made. And that this story in particular may never even get made. Still, it's a worry I have.
Lewis Carroll had the same thing happen with his "Alice in Wonderland" stories. Though I can't really say for sure if that really was his purpose with those characters.
Any advice?
--Dawn