I love what I do. I enjoy being able to create worlds and populate them with characters. I have fun crafting dialogue, adding humor, mining tension. It’s fun to write for theater and it’s fun to write for TV. And, the joy […]
It’s that time of year – for broadcast shows, anyway.
Pilots are being shot all over the world, generated by Hollywood writers who are hopeful that their project will end up on the Fall schedule. That means that writers rooms are about to be staffed.
So how do you […]
The industry can be a funny. It’s full of ups and downs – and often, writers zero in on the downs. They zip through the ups and forget to celebrate. So, I’m taking the space here to celebrate some of the amazing accomplishments from members of […]
I was talking with a fellow TV writer the other day about her experience in her writers’ room. She was navigating some challenges and was looking for advice. We had a juicy and lively conversation, and I realized, having negotiated 7 different writers’ rooms, that there are […]
This week, I’m writing a script for Stargirl, the TV series I have the pleasure to work on. In creating my episode, I work in some very specific ways. Chances are some of those methods might be helpful to you. Here are a bunch of the things […]
The conversations I’m having these days about TV writing are different from the conversations I was having before the pandemic. People outside the industry are asking me how will things move ahead. People inside the industry are asking specifically about what it’s like working on TV shows […]
One of the cornerstones of professional TV writing is meetings. It’s ironic, in a way, because part of what makes us solid writers is our ability to invent things alone. Most of us spend hours upon hours with our laptops or notebooks, channeling / downloading our impulses and […]
Often when I’m around a group of writers it doesn’t take long before one of them starts to complain.
“My agent won’t call me.”
“The producer didn’t like my script.”
“Everyone I know is doing so much better than I am.”
“I’m not getting anywhere in this business.”
“There’s nothing going on […]
It’s a New Year and time to make some choices.
At this point in my TV writing career I feel fortunate to have an attorney on my “team”. He deals with contracts for me. Most recently those contracts are for my work the new drama for TNT. I’ve also had my lawyer create collaboration agreements for projects […]
