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You Should Be Watching TV
The typical advice for creatives is to avoid TV like the plague. That’s wrong.
There’s nothing I love more than a great escape.
As a lonely fat kid, there was nothing I loved more than slipping into a great story.
To be fair, the same is true as a lonely fat adult, but I digress.
There’s something magical about falling into a story. It takes you out of a world that’s unfair, painful, and complicated. You fall into a story and — in most cases — you’re slipping into a better world, or at least a world where the good guys have a fighting chance.
To quote J.R.R. Tolkien (a master of many of my escapes, especially when I was younger) in his Epic Rap Battle against George R.R. Martin:
We all know the world is full of chance and anarchy,
so, yes, it’s true to life for characters to die randomly.
But, news flash: the genre’s called fantasy —
it’s meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee!
But, anyway, the point remains: stories are a great escape from the real world, especially when your budget is on a shoestring.
Sorry, we can’t all go to Boca, Karen.
