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24 Redux - Copywriter/Agent-For-Hire Returns
It’s started again and if you’re missing a four hour chunk of your life, then it must mean another season of Fox’s “24″ has begun.
Last year I blogged about the parallels some clients made between my focus as a copywriter and strategist to Sutherland’s character Jack Bauer.
In fact, one client later remarked, “. . . sometimes I think Walter’s more committed to my success than I am, if that’s possible. I always know he’s in my corner and I trust him completely.”
In that post, I also wrote about how the Bauer character made me a better copywriter.
Who cares, right? Well I’ll tell you who cares. If you’re a client then you know how this unwavering focus has benefited you because your revenues have been fattened and your responses are through the roof. If you’re not a client, then you’re wishing for those very same things and that means you absolutely need my skills and focus.
Anyway, in that same post, Stephen King weighs in on why if he was suffering from a heart attack, he wanted writer Harlan Ellison to check him into an Emergency Room — instead of his wife.
Geez . . . I would have hated to be in the King household the night that got published. I think Mr. King got “scary” redefined for him that night by Mrs. King.
Plus, since I’m talking about King, he has a great article on Season 6 of 24. It’s worth reading especially for his analysis on why 24 works so well and why other serial dramas fail. He’s spot-on about how Lost has become lost.
As someone who writes to get readers to do something and as a screenwriter in a previous life, I can tell you that the writers on Lost have no idea how to pay off on all the storylines they’ve opened. But that’s another post for another time.
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