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Act One

       What You Should Do Next

       Summary Points

       GUEST SPEAKER: STEVEN BOCHCO (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue)

       SPOTLIGHT ON WRITING PROCEDURALS

       GUEST SPEAKER: ANN DONAHUE (CSI: NY, CSI: Miami)

       GUEST SPEAKERS: MICHELLE & ROBERT KING (The Good Wife)

       CHAPTER FOUR

       WRITING YOUR OWN EPISODE

       “Hearing Voices”

       Finding your stories

       Breaking your stories

       Credibility

       Rooting interest

       The Grid

       Chart: Basic Four-Act Grid

       The Outline

       How to write your outline

       Outline Sample

       Alternate outline forms

       Fragment of ER outline

       Sonny’s List

       Your First Draft

       Sample script format

       Troubleshooting

       If you’re running long

       If you’re running short

       At the end of it all…

       Your Second Draft

       Your Polish

       What’s next?

       Summary Points

       GUEST SPEAKER: DAVID SIMON (Homicide, The Wire, Treme)

       SPOTLIGHT ON WRITING YOUR PILOT SCRIPT

       Create the “World”

       Find the Story Springboards

       Populate the “World”

       Make a Plan

       GUEST SPEAKER: GEORGIA JEFFRIES (Cagney & Lacey, China Beach)

       CHAPTER FIVE

       IT’S WHO YOU KNOW: WORKING ON STAFF

       The Staff from Hell

       Mistake 1: Don’t separate from the staff.

       Mistake 2: Don’t mix personal and work issues.

       Mistake 3: Don’t have other plans.

       Mistake 4: Don’t work at home instead.

       Mistake 5: Don’t be precious about your script.

       Mistake 6: Don’t “dis” the culture of the staff.

       Mistake 7: Don’t work on a series that’s wrong for you.

       The Good Staff

       A Slice of Life

       The Staff Ladder

       1. Freelance Writer

       2. Staff Writer

       3. Story Editor / Executive Story Editor

       4. Producer

       5. Supervising Producer

       6. Creative Consultant

       7. Executive Producer / Showrunner

       Summary Points

       SPOTLIGHT ON “UNSCRIPTED/REALITY” SHOWS

       GUEST SPEAKER: SCOTT A. STONE (The Mole, The Joe Schmo Show, Top Design)

       CHAPTER SIX

       HOW TO BREAK IN

       The rules:

       Write what you love.

       Don’t spec the series you plan to pitch.

       Ask the right questions about a series.

       Have the right tools.

       Have representation.

       Be in Los Angeles.

       The secret of success

       Summary Points

       What’s New?

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       LIFE AFTER FILM SCHOOL: CAUTIONARY TALES AND SUCCESS STORIES

       The Class of ’97

       Three Years Later

       Seven Years after Graduating

       Fourteen Years after Graduating

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       THE FUTURE OF TV DRAMA SERIES

       GUEST SPEAKER: DAVID GOETSCH (The Big Bang Theory, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

       A TOUR OF THE FUTURE

       Internet Drama Series

       Webisodes

       The Web is Dead

       HOME IS THE WHOLE WORLD

       Right Now

       CONCLUSION

       RESOURCES FOR YOU

       GLOSSARY

      

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