Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Difference between revisions

* [[Word of God]] has admitted that they started writing ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' not knowing who had killed Laura Palmer.

* The vast majority of [[Soap Opera|soaps]] work on this principle. It's essentially the nature of doing a work "live." [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] sometimes contributes to this trope, especially for things like pregnancies.

* Parodied in a ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'' sketch, which warns the viewer that it was "written in haste," showing the writer frantically mashing a keyboard trying to finish it within the deadline. The scene is filled with nonsensical actions and garbled dialogue caused by the typos, such as a man taking off his "rubber boobs" and sitting down on a "chain."

* Aaron Sorkin does this. There's a story that when he was writing [[The West Wing]], he needed President Bartlet to be lying in bed for a scene—and so gave the character ''multiple sclerosis.''

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