Inside the Hidden Struggles and Secrets of Writing Amid Los Angeles’ Glamour
There’s also this: Assuming you’re not a native Californian or a long-time transplant to L.A., you developed your writing voice elsewhere. Iowa, New Jersey, England, Norway, wherever. The sum of your life experiences and the very place in which you live now has helped to make you the writer you are, giving you your distinctive take on the world.
If you move to Los Angeles, it will change you. Hopefully for the better. But you will feel the same 70 degree sunny days that every other writer in L.A. does. You will have the same conversations with your managers and agents other writers do. You will show up at the same screenings and restaurants. You will chase the same gigs. You will read the same scripts. And over time, the sum of what you go through in L.A. will alter you as a writer. As I say, maybe it will make you a better writer. On the other hand, it’s possible the unique voice you developed by living elsewhere will get subsumed into the generic attitude and tone of every USC, UCLA, Loyoyla Marymount or Chapman film school grad hawking their wares in studios from Burbank to Culver City.
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