As he releases his second novel, former reality TV producer jryanstradal reflects on how he “never learned craft, discipline, and endurance anywhere like what I received from my years of producing TV”
are special in how deftly they acclimate the viewer to a completely unrealistic setting and narrative, normalize the stakes of unnatural dates and unusual challenges, and compel the viewer to stay hooked not just because of who wins, but how. During my stint atI was a story producer, charged with crafting the narrative for a reality show and making a half-hour or hour-long program out of untold hours of raw footage.
Since then, I’ve lost count of how many times a favorite scene or favorite sentence failed to make it into the final draft of a novel. I also became further acclimated to the creation of a narrative through subtraction, because the editors and I might assemble 58-minute cuts of the show we thought were perfect, and maybe they were, but they were also over 15 minutes too long for their time slot. Every scene, every sentence would be held under a microscope and be forced to defend its inclusion.
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