Welcome to Start with this, a podcast featuring Night Vale creators Jeffrey Cranor and me, Joseph Fink.
This is the show where we get you making stuff two simple assignments at a time.
Start with this melodrama.
Art is hard.
Starting is hard.
If you want to start some, we can stop with that.
You can stop.
A man in black laughs evilly.
He is doing bad things, and he is mean about it.
A woman in white shrieks in terror and fights the man in black.
Finally, she escapes, and the man in black falls off of a cliff because he's bad and he deserves it.
The woman in white marries another woman in white and they live happily ever after because they're good and they deserve it.
That's a story.
It's not, I admit, a very good story.
It is perhaps a tad melodramatic.
Melodrama drama in its modern sense is almost always pejorative.
It means simple stories and thin characters and predictable endings, and all of that stuff isn't ideal.
But here at Start with this incorporated, we don't believe in just dismissing art without thinking about it first.
And I'm here to tell you, as I laugh evilly and the music crescendos, to indicate that I'm bad, that melodrama can be useful and may well have its place in your work.
I'm Joseph Fink.