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Writing for Television Video Class

The Real Way to Write for Television:  

Learn How to Thrive in the Writers’ Room 

You’re about to learn the professional techniques used in the Writers’ Room of the Best Shows on TV.  

Without these techniques, you have little chance of breaking in to television, and more importantly being able to stay there.  

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Want to break in to television? 

Here’s what you DON’T do:

  • spend all your money entering contests
  • take courses in how to write a pilot
  • option your spec pilot to a so-called “producer” for $1 so they can “shop it around”

These so-called “solutions” don’t work, and I’ve seen writers disappointed again and again, at the cost of big dollars and years of wasted time.  

Why?  

Because the real secret to breaking into television is knowing how to survive and thrive in the Writers’ Room. 

The Solution:

Writing for Television

How To Thrive in the Writers’ Room

I was determined to help students tackle the real issues they face in breaking into television.  

These are:  

1. creating the opportunity

2. being ready for the opportunity when it arises. 

The sure-fire way to tackle both of these things in one swoop is:  

1. to learn how to write great television and

2. to learn how to write fast. 

That’s what this training course is all about. In other words…  

How to close the gap between your dream of being in the Writers’ Room

and the frustration of not having a clear path to realize it. 

This essentially means learning industry level writing techniques, straight out of the best Writers’ Rooms in television.  

This course is the complete system for how to write for television. 

It will show you: 

      • How to get into the Writers’ Room
      • How to survive and thrive there
      • How to master the techniques and systems to ultimately create your own show. 

Why does this class work so well? 

 

It has to do with the power of the SYSTEM for writing great television fast.  

Using the system, you will be stepped through the professional writing TECHNIQUES that will allow you to break and write stories with the best writers in the business. 

You will also learn how to generate material that will make any showrunner want you in their Writers’ Room. 

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The Writing for Television Course Guide

Here’s how it works: 

  • You get access to 15 modules of the Truby Writing for Television Course on video.
  • Each session covers top professional techniques of a key story area you must master to write compelling scripts for television. 
  • A process and framework, including homework assignments, to help you write a Spec Script that will get you hired, including
  •  
      • The story structure beats found in the best TV Drama scripts  
      • The key elements found in all Emmy winning scripts 
      • Genre beats for all the major TV genres  
      • How to make your scenes and dialogue pop 
  • Each session is one step in a focused sequence helping you become a valued member of the Writers’ Room.

The 15 modules will take you through a powerful writing process to map, then write a spec script that will get you through the door and start you on your way to creating your unique story brand in television. 

Here are the top-line topics we cover in the 15 modules:

    • Why television is the single best opportunity for professional success as a writer
    • The unpleasant trap that 99% of writers fall into and how to avoid it
    • The High Concept TV Premise
    • The 9 crucial TV Drama Story Beats
    • The most valued skill a writer in TV can have
    • Why serial TV is the big game changer
    • Setting up the TV 4-Point Opposition
    • The key plot requirements for television
    • The all-important TV Story Weave
    • Writing great TV Scenes and Dialogue
    • How to write the Spec Script that will get you work
    • The problem with writing genres in television.
    • How TV changes the major story genres
    • Detective/Police Story Beats
    • Soap Opera Beats
    • Historical Drama Beats
    • Horror Beats
    • Fantasy Beats
    • Science Fiction Beats
    • Action-Thriller Beats
    • Crime Story Beats
    • The most important skill every showrunner is looking for when they hire you, by far.
    • How to sequence the stories to create a great season
    • What writing for television and creating your own show is really about
    • How to create your own hit TV Drama

 

The Writing for Television Bonuses! 

Over 50,000 writers have taken my story classes and turned their writing dreams into reality. 

I am laser focused on giving you your best chance at professional success.  

So, I want to give you a free BONUS course that will help you get maximum traction on writing for the worldwide story market, straight out of the gate. 

Choose one of the following courses when you purchase Writing for Television to get the practical techniques that will kick your story up to the professional level right now! 

Your choice of:

Story for Money

Story Rescue

Avatar: How to Write
the Female Myth

Westworld: How to
Write the new Epic

[BONUS #1] Story for Money Class 

($59 Value) 

How to write stories that sell like hot cakes. Every. Single. Time.

In this training you will learn:

  • The biggest problem in popular story today.
  • The #1 misconception writers have about selling their script.
  • The 1st rule of writing a blockbuster script and a bestselling novel
  • Why narrative drive is the most important aspect of ANY story you write, no matter what your medium. (Nail this and 80% of your work is done!)
  •  Strategies used by JRR Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings and Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games trilogy that create blockbuster stories.
  •  Why 3-act structure, the hero’s journey, and save the cat won’t begin to give you a plot that works at the professional level. 
  •  The one story element Hollywood looks for in a script that’s more important than all the other story elements combined.
  • Why it has to be in your premise, or it will never be there at all.
  • How to CREATE A DESIRE LINE that MAXIMIZES the narrative drive.
  • The all-important connection between Narrative Drive and Opponent (no one else in story is teaching this, though this is one of my favorite techniques which can make or destroy a story).
  •  How narrative drive changes based on your Genre.
  •  Which Characters promote narrative drive, and which don’t. (Knowing this you can put your focus on the 20% that is going to make 80% of the difference to the power of your story.)
  • Why adequate Conflict is one of the keys to great narrative drive (and the ability to accelerate it towards the finish line.)
  • The one technique that will immediately get the reader to want to read anything you write. 
  •  Why Story World is the biggest enemy of narrative drive, and yet a VITAL component to your voice… and then knowing how to make them work together for maximum impact.
  •  How to create Plot that increases narrative drive in every story medium.
  •  How Narrative Drive differs in film, TV, novel, and video game.
  •  How to create a strong Theme that doesn’t kill narrative drive, rather supports it and ADDS to the texture of the weave.

[BONUS #2] Story Rescue Class 

($59 Value) 

The Story Rescue Class helps you fix the 7 most important structural mistakes on which almost all other mistakes in your story are founded.

In this training you will learn:

  • Key techniques to layer EMOTION into your story – and make your reader CARE DEEPLY about your characters.
  • The first rule of writing a bestselling novel.
  • How to fix a weak desire line.
  • The *ONE* character you must get right (hint: it’s not the protagonist!).
  • The STORY STRATEGY that will turn your hard work into sales.
  • The fatal flaw that 99% of writers make, to which there is no fix if you make it.
  • The trick to making your readers immediately love your hero.
  • The nuance that makes your hero legendary in story circles, and a bestseller (no one talks about this).
  • The GENRE ELEMENT every story needs (regardless of the genre you’re using! Yeah, I know. Check it out and I’ll explain).

[BONUS #3] Avatar: How to Write the Female Myth 

($79 Value) 

Learn the key story beats and techniques that made this movie the biggest blockbuster in history, with narrative drive off the charts – something every screenplay and novel today MUST have.

It’s all about the new Female Myth, the story form I believe will dominate worldwide storytelling for decades to come.

If you write novels, why would it be valuable to learn the key techniques of this immensely popular movie?  

Because the most popular novels and the novels that repeat in a series have to read like a fast-paced MOVIE.  

And it should be a movie that is part of a series, just like a novel series.  

You won’t believe how much you’ll learn about writing a great novel series by looking at my Avatar class.

In this training you will learn: ​

  • The real Myth story beats, the ones that make a great myth like Avatar, not the superficial beats everyone normally associates with this story form.
  • How to execute the story beats of the Myth genre, which is the foundation of more blockbuster scripts than any other by far.
  • How to twist the beats of the Myth form, which is the #1 strategy for placing yourself above the crowd in the competitive world of storytelling.
  • How the film creates a story revolution by tracking two conflicts: between a technological society and a nature society and between a Male Myth and a Female Myth.
  • How to write a mixed genre script, which is the only script Hollywood now buys.
  • A perfect example of a Female Myth story, a story form that I believe will be the most popular genre over the next two decades worldwide.

[BONUS #4] Westworld: How to Write the New Epic 

($79 Value) 

Learn the key elements of the New Epic that can change the world and rocket you to the top.

In this training you will learn:

  • What the New Epic is, given recent changes in storytelling.
  • Why Epic is the key to the stories you want to write, in EVERY medium.
  • What the New Epic is, given recent changes in storytelling.
  • Why Epic is the key to the stories you want to write, in EVERY medium.
  • Why this form allows you to overcome the basic black-and-white tropes of simplistic story forms to explore more complex characters and character webs.
  • How to execute the New Epic story structure that appeals to the consciousness of a worldwide audience.
  • How Westworld goes beyond the simplistic dystopia vs. utopia distinction in Science Fiction and Fantasy stories to do something really advanced.
  • The best genres for writing epic, worldbuilding stories.
  • The difference of writing an epic for TV, novels, and film.
  • Why Westworld is the perfect transmedia story.
  • Why the TV serial shows writers the keys to writing serial novels.
  • How Westworld does the serial novel to perfection (extending plot).
  • How mixing the right genres in the right way is the key to Westworld’s success.
  • How Westworld creates one of the best story worlds in history.
  • How Westworld connects characters to story world to plot.
  • How the meta story elements kick Westworld to another level of excellence and consciousness.
  • How to explore and demonstrate moral revelations for your characters in this new form.
  • How Westworld creates human – or is it super-human – consciousness.
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