Good sort of race show, okay though, good

race show,

if you ever wanted to know how to make a television show,

Salim Akil is the perfect guy to talk to.

He made girlfriends, he made the game,

he's behind a new show on the CW called Black Lightning he and his

wife Mara Brock Akil have made so much interesting television over the last decade, he is the perfect person to talk about

where a show begins. Listen to him. A character will start talking to me. The side of the blue, I'm driving, mostly driving,

and I'll find them interesting.

And they pretty much badger me over a period of time and so then I start writing things down that they say and then I ask them I say well who are you and we start having that conversation and then I start to figure out

what kind of world this person is living in and that's more like a spiritual thing you know

you just kind of sit down and take a breath and some people would call it meditating.

And the story starts to come.

The trick is to make sure that you're paying attention to if it's a story that you're hearing or is it a story that I'm telling to myself and there is a difference.

What's the difference?

I would liken if the story is telling itself,

you don't have to think about it.

You just write it. It's there. It's up in the, you know, the

Akashik realm and you just pull it down, right? If I'm telling the story, then I'm

really thinking, you know, bit by bit by bit.

So I have developed over the years the ability to let the story come to me.

And that's how it starts.

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