Movies are stories. Of course, many movies are based on the work of writers in the form of novels or, sometimes, short stories. Borrowing the plot, a director and screenwriter take over and retell the story visually. Often the original written form is better. Serial television shows are the same. Since writers of television programs can’t know season-by-season whether their program will be renewed, it has to be, almost by definition, open-ended. When a new season begins a character may have shifted or become someone else, and we, the viewers must play along. My current television story is Sleepy Hollow . It is very different, of course, than the tale written by Washington Irving. By the end of season one, even, it was clear that the writers had changed their minds as to who some of the characters were. Henry Parrish was not originally the horseman of war. I have no way of knowing that, but as a writer I can sense it. As ...
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