They say, “If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours forever.”

When it’s time to take your first show to market you’re going to feel a lot of things: pride at having finished what you started, ecstatic at the possibilities in front of you, and fear: fear of being rejected, or fear that someone will steal your idea, or the big one we’re going to discuss today, fear that you’ve worked long and hard on your show and complete strangers who “don’t get it” are going to want to change it. …readmore

Brevity.

I’m leaving on vacation in less than an hour, so what better topic to discuss than brevity.

Emails. Phone calls. One Sheets.

These all have one thing in common; they provide you with the opportunity to be loquacious; to use three words when two will do. …readmore

Research, social media, and your face.

As you research television shows that are in a similar genre to yours it’s not uncommon that you’ll have to watch some shows that you consider to be utter crap. Some of them probably ARE crap. Yet you still have to watch them so that you know the ins and outs of what’s on TV. …readmore

I was making a pizza the other day (“making a pizza” means putting extra toppings on a frozen pizza), but when I looked in the fridge I didn’t have any pepperoni.

It was a nasty day outside and it ticked me off because if I had checked earlier I could have easily picked some up before I got to the final stages of “making” my dinner. Needless to say I chose to brave the elements and quickly run to the corner-store because really, a pizza without pepperoni isn’t much of a pizza at all.

It reminded me of this kid Tony I went to elementary school with whose family owned a pizza joint. This kid always knew the daily lessons’ answers before our teacher taught the class because whatever chapter we were supposed to read, he would read the next chapter as well, so he was always ready for whatever questions came up the next day. …readmore

Happy New Year!! I’m not really one for resolutions but if I was, I think it would be along the lines of “Work smarter. Not harder.” So in light of my non-resolution this week I’m re-posting a blog written by Alex Epstein.

In his blog last week he wrote about accepting feedback as a writer, and frankly, he makes a great point. I hope you find it useful.

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With holiday season parties upon us you’re going to run into old friends and friends of friends. And if you’ve been working on your show for awhile you’re going to find something interesting starting to happen.

People are going to start pitching you their show ideas.

As people around you learn more and more about you writing your own show they are going to come to think of you as an expert. And why shouldn’t they? Out of most people they know you are probably the only person they know writing a TV show. And they’ve probable even told their friends about you. …readmore