i wrote a spec of The Office in feb, and now i’m working on one for How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM). i finished the outline and sent it to some friends to review first, and after getting positive feedback, i’m ready to start writing pages.
john august has a great post on his site about writing groups. he makes a very interesting suggestion which is to put an expiration date on the group at the start, and i think that’s a brilliant idea. i’ve been in several writing groups in the past and they’ve all fizzled out, but they’ve all…
i’ve been watching old episodes of How I Met Your Mother for research, and decided on the logline for the spec i want to write. my A story, the main story, concerns Robin and Lily, so i need to come up with a good B story that involves the other characters, Ted, Marshall, and Barney….
my plan is to have 2 comedy spec scripts and 1 pilot. i wrote 1 spec of The Office which i sent off to the nickelodeon fellowship. my other spec will be for How I Met Your Mother so i’ve been watching past episodes for research.