alex epstein interviews Chad Gervich who wrote a book on how to break into tv. part 1 – tv vs film, queries, getting an industry job part 2 – new media, contests part 3 – reality show pitches (i have no interest in reality but you might) part 4 – spec vs pilot, networking, short…
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.
i’m all done with my first tv spec! the deadline for the nick writing fellowship is tomorrow, but i finished and mailed it off today. the fellowship announcements will be made in late august / early september, so now i have to forget this project and move on to my next one. i ended up…
i’m about halfway through a rough draft of my Office spec. the time i put into outlining is paying off, because i already figured out the main story beats and now i can focus on dialogue and jokes. besides being just a valuable part in the writing process, outlining is something i would have to…
after spending over a week on research and outlining, i started writing actual script pages for my Offce script. i have 3 programs: •celtx •final draft 7 •movie magic screenwriter 2000
i always outline my scripts, even for my short films. and when i outline, i always use omni outliner. it’s a great piece of software. for the current script, i made 3 columns: one for the main story beat, one for the slugline (location), and one for any additional notes, like act breaks. i’ll start…
i want to write a spec of The Office and i had settled on the logline after pitching to some friends, but i realized that the story needed to focus a little more on michael. i felt like i needed to examine more of his character and his flaws, so i came up with a…