how to break into tv
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…
my next spec : himym
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…
writing groups
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…
idea for a pilot
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…
finished my Office script
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…
halfway done
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…
mini review of screenwriting programs
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…
outlining my script
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…
finalized my logline
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…