Writers Block
- Jan. 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 PM
I've been trying for days to write something and I'm getting nowhere.
I have this idea about a family stuck in the black and white world of 50's TV.
Can anybody offer any ideas?
I have this idea about a family stuck in the black and white world of 50's TV.
Can anybody offer any ideas?

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I have a duck giving him his allowance after he says the secret word. It's just not getting anywhere.
Dobie Gillis Smith returned home from school. He had decided that today was the day to ask some questions. Why is everything in their home in black and white? Why dies Dad put on a tie on days he remains at home? Why doesn’t he get his allowance until he says a secret word, and even then he gets it from a duck.
You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone! Submitted for your approval Dobie Gillis Smith, son of Buffalo Bob Smith and June Cleaver Smith, an otherwise normal child is trapped in the world of Fifties Television, within the twilight zone.
“Dobie is that you?” asked Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith is a typical housewife of the day, if the day is 1956. She is dressed neatly in a house dress with a string of three pearls around her neck. “Go wash your hands, I have some milk and cookies waiting for you.”
So after obeying his mother, as he always did, Dobie enters the kitchen and asks the question. “Mom, why do we live like we live?”
“What do you mean, we live an ordinary American life?”
“Mom, it’s 2009, you and Dad argued over who to vote for last week, Eisenhower or Stevenson,”
“Well, I just think that Mr. Stevenson would make a fine President. Your father’s answer is “I like Ike.’”
“They ran 50 years ago! My teacher says that they’re both dead.”
“Why should you worry about that. Don’t you want to watch American Bandstand?”
“That’s just it, American Bandstand hasn’t been on Television for 30 years. Why does Dad drive a DeSoto? How came we always listen to only Elvis on something called a Victrola?”
“What else is there dear?”
Start over. :)
= )
I suspect you are trying too hard.
Let something new enter in to the "black and white world of 50's TV."
Be calm, sedate, simmer in gray!
Happy journey around your neighborhood. :)