Inside the Room
Writing Television With the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 6, 2013
What does it take to go from being a fan to professional television writer?
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- Who it’s for
- Aspiring television writers learning to write and revise scripts
- Themes
- Television scriptwriting, Launching a writing career, Making and selling a TV show
- Genres
- Writing for TV, Business Writing, TV Guides
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What does it take to go from being a fan to professional television writer? For the first time outside of the UCLA Extension Writers' Programme classrooms, TV writers whose many produced credits include The Simpsons, House M.D., and Pretty Little Liars take aspiring writers through the process of writing their first spec script for an on-air series, creating one-hour drama and sitcom pilots that break out from the pack, and revising scripts to meet pro standards.
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Learn how to launch and sustain a writing career and get a rare, intimate look inside the yearlong process of creating, selling, and getting a TV show made. Edited by writers' program director Linda Venis, Inside the Room is the ultimate guide to writing one's way into the Writers Guild of America. "Venis corrals an accessible and useful guide for anyone with the dream and the drive who needs to know, practically, what to do. An engaging and helpful how-to for hopeful TV writers or anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of this ephemeral art." - Kirkus Reviews
Who it’s for
- Aspiring television writers learning to write and revise scripts
- Readers interested in how television shows are created and sold
Where it sits
| Writing for TV | 98% |
|---|---|
| Business Writing | 28% |
| TV Guides | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Language Arts
- Screenwriting
- Writing for TV
- Authors
- Linda Venis
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- August 6, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Television scriptwriting · Launching a writing career · Making and selling a TV show
- Reading lane
- Language Arts