I wish that the people behind Love, Death & Robots would set up a site where people could send in their stories. Then the LD&R team could pick the best ones, polish them and turn them into episodes. If they did it that way we could get many sessions whit high quality.
shareAnd open yourself up to lawsuits for plagiarism. Right, genius.
shareNo thanks. Amateur fan fiction sucks most of the time. Rather stick to acclaimed short stories by established authors.
shareThe ones sending in their stories would of course sign of that its ok to use their work (I thought that was obvious). Regarding the quality, yes there will be a lot of bad stories but that’s why the team of LD&R will have to pick out the best ones. I think there’s a lot of people out there with good stories that could contribute to making the show better.
shareYou don’t understand the industry. The studio will flat-out NOT READ any unsolicited material it receives. Nor will a publisher. The crap you see in movies about some hopeful sending off an unsolicited manuscript and getting his/her big break are sheer fantasy.
And, yes, fan fiction is uniformly terrible.
I understand that studios don’t take in works from amateur writers, if they did there would be no reason for me to suggest it. Trying something new is that a bad thing?
I also understand that the quality when it comes to fan written works can be pretty low but LD&R is a unique case because of its format. There is a lot different to write something for a 15 minutes episode then a complex film script. It also isn’t so much about how the work is written, it’s more about the idea. That ide can the team of LD&R then turn in to an episode.
You can’t mean that you, me or any other nonprofessional writer could not come up with an idea good enough to fit in the show?
I’m not suggesting it would work as a steppingstone for a carrier as a writer, I just thought it was a fun thing that maybe could benefit the show.