i wrote my spec of The Office in 3 weeks because of the Nick Fellowship deadline. it’s been about 5 weeks now since i decided to write a spec for How I Met Your Mother, so obviously i’ve been working at a much more relaxed (lazy) pace. so far my rough draft is running at…

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.

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….

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…

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…

i came up with over a dozen ideas for possible episode ideas, but narrowed it down to 2. i double checked various episode guides online just to make sure my ideas haven’t already been done. then i sent the ideas to a bunch of friends and asked which they liked better. i got good feedback…

i just got an email today about the nickelodeon writing fellowship program. you have to submit a spec script on an existing half hour series. a friend of a friend got into that program a couple years ago and landed a staff job there. there is also the disney writing fellowship and you need a…