TV Writing Workshop
Bring your idea and we’ll build your TV pilot, series and pitch deck.
In this class you’ll learn:
Scene and dialogue mechanics
Writing clear, purposeful scenes with subtext and stakes
Crafting authentic, distinctive dialogue and comedic timing
How to end a scene with a button joke or action event
Business and career skills
Writing professional query letters, loglines, and one-page pitches
Building a portfolio: spec scripts, pilot, and series bible
Networking, agents, managers, and navigating submission channels
Writers’ room practice
Collaborative storybreaking: idea generation, outlining, and group rewriting
Pitching scenes and notes, receiving and implementing feedback
Workshop and critique practices
Giving and receiving constructive feedback on scenes and scripts
Using peer review to refine voice and structure
Iterative development through staged readings and table reads
Story fundamentals and structure
How to build a scene, sequence, and episode using conflict, escalation, and payoff
Three-act, four-act, and serialized structures specific to television
Pacing across a 22–60 minute episode and series arc planning
Character creation and development
Writing distinct, active protagonists, antagonists, and supporting casts
Creating character wants, needs, and dramatic beats that drive plot
Character arcs across episodes and seasons
Voice, tone, and genre
Finding and sustaining a unique writer’s voice for comedy, drama, and procedurals.
Understanding the difference between comedy, drama and dramady/traumadys
Episode and series concepting
Developing loglines, synopses, and series bibles
Translating high-concept ideas into sustainable season plans
Creating show pitches geared to buyers and networks/streamers
Week 1
How to create characters that your audiences will want to binge with personalities that put pressure on each other to create a lasting series.
Week 2
The difference between a comedy, a dramady and a drama, and how to structure those on the page for the pilot.
Week 3
How to build out your series engine, what makes a lasting series, and how to repeat your pilot structure again and again.
Week 4
You’ll leave with the confidence to write a pitch deck that will sell your pilot. Or gets you hired on an existing series!
This class meets ONLINE
Mondays 6-8 pm starting April 13th for four weeks.
