spec advice

http://aboyandhistvshow.blogspot.com/2011/09/spec-script-5-speccenning.html
http://kiyong.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/writing-program-notifications-rejection/
http://kiyong.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/notes-from-navigating-the-tv-writers-programs/
http://writersworkshop.warnerbros.com/web/back_story.jsp

But I would read an original piece knowing that the person writing it probably doesn’t know nuance, scene, structure, repetitive beats or telegraphing. These are the things you learn when you’re on staff.

http://www.scriptmag.com/2011/07/18/primetime-wannabe-a-writer-get-in-the-game-or-go-home-also-comedy-writing-programs-and-pilot-page-counts/


stuck? figure out how to incorporate play
http://io9.com/5555114/inside-the-tv-writers-room-a-place-of-magic-and-mystery-and-making-shit-up-for-money


http://www.aoltv.com/2011/09/08/women-television-producers-decline/

The female characters are created through a male POV: women are to be protected, desired, or feared. So we often end up with women who are damsels in distress, sex objects/love interests, or bitches/villainesses.

maybe work on being a pa this year?

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have.

We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

-Ira Glass

karen muruyama: https://www.facebook.com/people/Karen-Maruyama/675633057

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/12/dollhouse-fox-joss-whedon.html
http://what-fresh-hell-is-this.blogspot.com/2008/11/cardboard-supports-nothing.html


http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

Try to find one or two vivid sensory details to work into the next page, or a bon mot, so that you've already got some material when you sit down at the keyboard.