Finding Inspiration

We have had the opportunity to speak with a couple of writers about the process of creating successful telenovelas. Telenovelas are very demanding on everyone involved in creating them; all of the components (writers, actors, producers) must depend on one another to make a successful telenovela. Writers in particular have a challenging role because if they don't produce anything that it can set back all of production.

Telenovelas air every weekday, meaning writers have to produce a script per day for however long the telenovela lasts. Although there are key elements of a telenovela that they must include in the story, they must be creative and stretch their imaginations in order to keep watchers intrigued. It makes you wonder where they find the inspiration to come up with such crazy stories. What influences them? Do they write in the same place everyday or do they try writing in different settings? Do they incorporate anything from their own lives in the scripts? Do they study the people around them or in the news to develop certain characters?


I know that every writer has their own unique process but I can't help but wonder what kind of struggles they face with trying to push out a script. I have a hard enough time trying to think of something meaningful to write about in blog posts, let alone create something that has to entertain thousands of people. One thing's for sure, writers really have to love the art of telenovelas because so much blood, sweat, and tears has to go in each and every script that they write.