Laughs ) Did I think it would kill me at one point, yes. “Somebody asked me if there was a learning curve, and I said, ‘How about a learning cliff?’ (
The YA (young adult fiction) author describes her multiple roles as creator, writer and executive producer on the show as crazy, overwhelming and taxing. It was an iterative process, and one I hadn’t done before so it was a huge challenge, a huge amount of work, but one that I was incredibly blessed to be able to do.” Multiple hats Writing for television is like working on one of those mobile sculptors where changing one thing, changes the balance of everything.
You write a scene, and if it is not possible to build it that way, it changes things.
Every day you are getting feedback from a real-world environment. Writing for television is dynamic, very fast paced, and things change. It was hard not because there was not enough material or it was superficial, it was hard because it is a completely different way of writing. The characters have lived in my head for so long that if it were up to me, I would have written a 100-episode long TV show that would have been very boring and unwatchable. “I wrote 20 different drafts of every episode. Heather (Olivia Welch) and Ray (Ray Nicholson) in a still from ‘Panic’Īdapting a 400-page novel into 10 hours of television was tough, according to Lauren. For the novel, I made the shape of a crane while for the television show, I get to pull apart the folds and see all the different dimensions.” Dynamic environment If, for the novel I created, let us say, a crane. Television gives you a lot more space to work in, Lauren says. There are these different dimensions that I was not able to address in the book.” They are not sure what it is, but they are trying to find out and stop it. “They have recently become aware of this game called Panic. Lauren says new adult characters have been introduced. The other change was setting the show in Texas, which compared to other American states has a very, unique culture and I wanted to reflect that in my characters.” New arrivals It changed the entire arc of the character and the season because in the novel, he was the antagonist and I had to create a new antagonist for the show. When we hired Ray Nicholson to play Ray, I realised that I was invested in the character. “With a television show, one of the things you have to factor in, is that you are dealing with live actors and that changes things. ‘Panic’ review: Amazon Prime teen show works in fits and startsĪpart from updating the novel for the show, Lauren says there have been changes with respect to character and locations.
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