Inside the Room
Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program
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Accomplished writers from the renowned UCLA Extension Writers’ Program provide an invaluable how-to book for aspiring television writers What does it take to go from being a TV fan to a professional TV writer? Television writers whose many produced credits include The Simpsons; Mad Men; Frasier; X-Files; Battlestar Gallactica; CSI: Miami; Law and Order; and House, M.D.; take aspiring writers through the process of writing their first spec script for an on-air series, creating one-hour drama and sitcom pilots that break out from the pack, and revising their scripts to meet pro standards. They also learn how to launch and sustain a writing career and get a rare look inside the process of creating, selling, and getting a TV show made. Edited by Linda Venis, Director of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, Inside the Room is an unmatched resource for everything readers need to know to write their way into the Writers Guild of America.
“The instructors at UCLA Extension are working professionals, they have their own takes on the industry and you know you are getting real, not jaded, opinions about the entertainment business.” –Stuart Beattie, screenwriter-director, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl “Before I started taking the [UCLA Extension] classes, I didn’t know a lot about the structure and mechanics of screenwriting. Extension has given me a solid grounding in these skills.” –Iris Yamashita, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Best Original Screenplay, Letters from Iwo Jima “The Writers’ Program instructors have been out there- they’re speaking from experience.” –Zoanne Clack, Grey’s Anatomy, ER |
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