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This week: The World of Sport Edited by: Kit  
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What's your sport of choice? What do you enjoy about it?
The world of sport is filled with stories. What obstacles will your athletes overcome?
This week's Drama Newsletter is all about finding new and exciting adventures.
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I quite enjoy a good sports-related story. What’s not to love about following a person or a team on their journey to success? It takes hard work and dedication, all of which I can admire from the comfort of a cosy reading chair. Athletes face a plethora of obstacles. They make many sacrifices. Few make it to the top. It is safe to say that it’s a career choice with a great risk of heartbreak – most dreams get shattered along the way.
It’s a promising field for a writer to explore, but unless I am looking in all the wrong places, there does not appear to be a great variety of stories out there. There are the stories about the underdog, of course: the athlete or team who wins the event/championship against the odds. They may be from a poor background. They may be underequipped, or at least up against some elite opponent who has vastly superior training and resources. The opponent or their management may actively undermine the underdog’s heroic efforts but, usually, they will show such heart, and overcome any differences within the team so well, that in the end (possibly in the final seconds) they shoot, they score, and the much-coveted trophy is theirs. They get to celebrate, and we get to feel good – it’s a perfect pay-off for the time we’ve invested in the tale, if not somewhat predictable. Not that that predictability is necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it’s exactly what we need.
Then there is the hero or heroine who’s had a setback. They may have had an accident. They may have experienced trauma. For example, they may have fallen off their beloved horse, and now they’re frightened to get back in the saddle. The bond between horse and human may need to be restored. There’s the race car driver too afraid to get back behind the wheel. The athlete uncertain if their injury’s healed sufficiently for them to compete at the highest level. Or perhaps they’ve experienced a humiliating defeat, and they don’t want to go through something like that ever again… They’ll overcome their fears, though. They’re going to try again, and they’re going to succeed.
Or, not all of them. Some heroes and heroines have let time slip by, but now there’s this promising talent who needs them. Their experience, their expertise is necessary to help this younger athlete overcome the obstacles in their path and achieve the kind of glory that has sadly eluded their mentors. They’ll succeed together, leaving behind past pains and disappointments, their mental scars now healed.
There is also the person who never wanted to be an athlete. They’re forced into it by one or both of their parents, who live their lost dreams of sporting success through the accomplishments of their child.
And that’s about it. There’s a Formula 1 movie set to star Brad Pitt as the veteran driver mentor to a rising talent, which sounds very much like one of the above-mentioned scenarios. Of course, it’s early days and little is yet known, but I guess it’s a proven formula. People like these types of story.
It’d be nice to read/watch something different, though. There must, surely, be other stories to tell about the world of sport. There are some popular docuseries, like Formula 1’s Drive to Survive, which aim to give a (somewhat dramatized) behind-the-scenes glimpse of the drivers and the teams, but what I’m looking for is a good fictional story to settle into. And I’m struggling to find it.
For something new, something fresh we might have to look at combining the genre with an other, less obvious one. Whilst but a relatively minor component of the Harry Potter novels, J. K. Rowling’s invention of quidditch was quite creative, and has even inspired a new real-world sport. Mixing sports with fantasy, then, could be a promising option, as could a combination of sports and sci-fi, or even horror. Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals has an inspired take on football, and Google tells me that sports/horror movies exist, although by their description several still follow the general trend of the disadvantaged person who must beat the odds to achieve success.
The door’s wide open, it seems. If a creative spark happens to float in your direction after reading this newsletter, you can put pen to paper (or pixels to screen) safe in the knowledge that there’s plenty of room for your take on the world of sport. What will your athlete or team of athletes get up to? What adventures will they have? I hope it’s novel, and exciting. If so, feel free to send in a link!
Kit
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