Inside the Room: Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program

by Linda Venis

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. 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

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 6, 2013

Reviews

[De Jarous · Rating 4 out of 5]

Line-for-line, this book is crammed with streamlined tidbits for writing a TV Drama Spec and Pilot. I must confess, in these scriptwriting books I never read the chapters about how to succeed in Hollywood. So, you'll have to take a chance on the last chapters. I just want to learn to write well. If you're interested in writing, however Inside the Room is a necessary codebreaker for you copious note-takers.