Check out my old blog post on my writing blog called “3 Writing Lessons from Battlestar Galactica“. Here’s an excerpt:
So my husband and I loved Battlestar Galactica, and listed to many of the writer/developer/producer Ronald D. Moore’s commentary on the early season DVDs (originally distributed as podcasts which you can still download from SyFy). Some of the more useful lessons I gleaned from listening to the commentary:
1) Be economical with your writing. TV shows have a limited amount of time with which to tell a story. If your show runs longer than it’s time slot, you have no choice–you have to trim scenes or delete them altogether. You do have more room when writing a novel but no one (especially not kids and teens) wants to read a book they can’t even carry (and unless you are a famous author, you probably won’t get published that way). But how do you decide what’s important and what isn’t?
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