…It’s also how you write. I truly believe – and my decades (yikes!) of experience bear me out, that the best way to break into the Industry is to write a script so powerful nobody can say “No.”
Of course it’ll help if at that point you can give it to your buddy/spouse/person who owes you money who also is the head of a studio or network or agency.
…When it arrives in the middle of the story. Our friends at Script Reader Pro put it this way back in 2019:
A great way to end your second act is to have your heroine finally get what she’s been wanting, only to then realize it isn’t what she needs, and then focusing in on what she actually needs to achieve, creating the climax of your story.
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
The fourth in a series of videos about what is for all practical purposes the most important thing to know in showbiz: How to sell your idea, your script, and yourself.
This is serious business indeed, but the process also is filled with fun and, yes, love. So please sit back and click to learn, enjoy, and maybe even find your TV show Destiny by knowing more about WHAT EXECUTIVES WANT TO SEE IN A TV SERIES PITCH.
MORE TO COME
…For making last night’s class meeting pure gold. Awesome work all around from Allie Theiss, Barbara Gaillard, and Juli Branson.
God, I love it when I get the chance to read and discuss such good writing.
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