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Unsolicited advice to college and graduate programs:
If you're teaching screenwriting, specifically TV WRITING, make social and emotional skills part of your curriculum, because they are at least as vital as any writing acumen to the careers of your students... 1/
If you're teaching screenwriting, specifically TV WRITING, make social and emotional skills part of your curriculum, because they are at least as vital as any writing acumen to the careers of your students... 1/
...As much as structure and stakes and dialogue and drama are important - and they are - the ability to thrive in group setting, to play well with others and mostly to understand that every writer's future requires that they learn the television shows are organisms 2/...
...where one's individual sense of art and voice must always be tempered with the needs of the whole.
Shorter: most of us get into the biz to tell OUR stories; whereas writing on staff is about bringing our stories to a collective narrative, which we often don't control 3/...
Shorter: most of us get into the biz to tell OUR stories; whereas writing on staff is about bringing our stories to a collective narrative, which we often don't control 3/...
...so design a "room" class and find someone to teach it who's been in enough rooms to prepare soon-to-be-writers with what's to come.
Also, start drilling early that we either all work together and survive...or turn on each other & die in the harsh winter of episode 215 fin/.
Also, start drilling early that we either all work together and survive...or turn on each other & die in the harsh winter of episode 215 fin/.
