I find myself at an interesting place in my writing career where I’m working by day in my dream medium’s environment: a drama TV show’s writers’ room - learning endless amounts about how to craft great TV (though not actually writing it myself for the show). Whereas outside the show, I have an opportunity to continue working the feature space - while actively working on various commissioned podcast projects and video essays. Not to mention, I write once a day on the blog here (and attempt to write fiction when the inspiration strikes during an open window). It’s a pretty diverse field and sometimes I wonder if I’m doing myself a disservice somehow by spreading it out like that. Would I benefit more if I trimmed all the fat and focused entirely on one medium (TV)? Or does adapting to the constraints of one medium teach you transferable lessons for another? It’s hard to say. Reading into my own proclivities, in a different part of the brain, I like to read multiple books at the same time and usually they couldn’t be more different than one another. Right now I’m reading a contemporary collection of Japanese fairy tales, a period piece adventure story, and a collection of essays about climate change and war. I tend to just pick up whichever one strikes me that day. Perhaps giving myself the ability to pivot between mediums in the same sense will produce the best work — not that I can choose so willy nilly, there are deadlines and writing schedules, but perhaps the psychology is the same for me. Something I’ll continue to think about.
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