how to land your first tv writing job!

Just to make this clear, I am not telling you how to get the job. I'm reading about that too.

I learned that the writing process for television shows include a lot of conference meetings with other writers and drinking coffee along the way. The industry is hard to break unless you have great connections. It is not easy to simply walk into a studio and place your prompts on a desk and expect that to be adapted.

You have to learn the craft of television writing in order to be an expert at it.
For example:

• Take classes to familiarize yourself with the course and know what genres work on television. Demographics, animation, budget, etc.
• Another option is to read reference books because in order to write for television, you need to know what's already on there and what's already popular.
• Don't look at your episode from your perspective, but consider the audience and whether or not they'll be entertained. Will they understand the plot the way that you do?
• Characters, structure, and tone are super important in a show. All scripts have a structure too!
• The biggest advice is to accept criticism. This is the only way to improve on your writing and appeal to a broader audience.
• The big brother to criticism is rejection, which is also important. Your scripts will not always be chosen or well liked and that is okay, because this humbles yourself and challenges you to create a better episode.

Now that I know how to write for television, I don't need to go to School of the Arts anymore.