Week One: Developing a Monster

I can't write simple things anymore. It's a curse. A really expensive curse. All I wanted was for a guy who time-traveled to go and save his wife from death. A death that he causes and needs to fix. All I wanted was a journey of redemption, or something simple like that. Something that lasted maybe ten or twenty minutes then was over and everyone felt satisfied. I began writing it out during a flight in late May. One month later I've outlined a four season television series comprising seven episodes a season with each episode lasting 40 minutes. What the hell is wrong with me?

A simple short film about a dude trying to save his wife turned into a television series about a dude trying to save his wife in the past while trying to save his son in the future while trying to make his dead wife fall in love with him while still trying to save her from being a dead wife in the first place. It questions fate and time and if one can change an event even when they've already been living in its aftermath. One guy trying to do stuff has turned into three generations of a family all trying to change the fates of one another and essentially trying to erase the sins of the father, over and over again for nearly forty years. I also threw in people who are immortal, which I threw in after an unwritten vampire film I started developing suddenly became relevant when I decided immortal people could walk around in this time-altering universe.

Never before has a story vomited out of my brain faster than I could react. After a solid month of constant writing, thinking, and writing again, I decided that this has to become reality. So now I'm on a mission to create web series. God help us all.