Beyond The Script : Career Strategy For TV and Film Writers
Nick Jobe and Steve Harper
36 episodes
2 weeks ago
Most writers think if they explain their show clearly enough, walk through the structure, describe the characters, outline the plot, the pitch will land. But explaining isn't pitching, and that's where most writers get stuck. A pitch requires architecture, language control, and positioning that most writers never learn because they're too focused on just getting the information across. In this final episode of Beyond the Script, Nick and Steve break down the actual craft: panoramic thinking t...
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Most writers think if they explain their show clearly enough, walk through the structure, describe the characters, outline the plot, the pitch will land. But explaining isn't pitching, and that's where most writers get stuck. A pitch requires architecture, language control, and positioning that most writers never learn because they're too focused on just getting the information across. In this final episode of Beyond the Script, Nick and Steve break down the actual craft: panoramic thinking t...
Beyond The Script : Career Strategy For TV and Film Writers
37 minutes
8 months ago
Should Entertainment News Guide Your Decisions?
Human nature suggests that when the sky seems to be falling we turn to the media to confirm our fears. As writing jobs and our industry as a whole contracts writers find themselves turning to the trades to allay fears or just to "find out more." The good wisdom has always seemed to say that "reading the trades" was a must for any writer worth their salt. But how much trade news - on premieres, and overall deals, and mergers, and agents leaving companies - is too much news? In this...
Beyond The Script : Career Strategy For TV and Film Writers
Most writers think if they explain their show clearly enough, walk through the structure, describe the characters, outline the plot, the pitch will land. But explaining isn't pitching, and that's where most writers get stuck. A pitch requires architecture, language control, and positioning that most writers never learn because they're too focused on just getting the information across. In this final episode of Beyond the Script, Nick and Steve break down the actual craft: panoramic thinking t...