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I think this might be one of my most important points.
So I'm gonna set for what's amazing and exciting for you is that there are as many different types of dramas as you can make up in your head.
I'm opening the doors to my office, said that the next generation of writers can exist.
I really want you to come away with the knowledge of what it is to write for television, how to put together a television pilot, writing dialogue, character, power writer's room works I would have killed you know that, and you're gonna get to hear all the stuff that I never really ever tell anybody.
I have to think about your 1st 10 pages being all about who is my character.
How do I reveal my character as best as I possibly can take a pilot that you know well and break it down.
And so I thought we would do that with the scandal pilot.
In order to break those rules, you have to understand what the rules are.
I graduated from college and really felt lost.
I mean, truly felt lost.
I used to drive around the corner from the studio and Crile lunch hour and I would come home with the end of a very long day and I pull up my laptop and I would work on my script.
That script is the script that got me an agent that got me a job that got things happen for me.
People are dying for good writers right now.
Remember that you belong in any room that you enter.
And if you don't feel like you truly belong, act like you.
What you should be doing right now is sitting down to start writing immediately.
There are so many people out there who feel like television has these secret keys to its kingdom.
Let's take those keys and unlock the doors.
Let's figure out what's back there.
I'm gonna tell you what I know.