
Forget walking the walk, can you even talk the talk? Do you know what a 'clam' is? How about 'a barrel' or the dreaded 'nakamura'?
These are terms compiled from the writers rooms of Family Guy, The Simpsons, SNL, 30 Rock, Will & Grace and other top TV shows. They're also really useful concepts and principles you can apply to your writing - whether it's a spec or original TV script, screenplay, personal essay, blog or comedy writing in any format.
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I loved the other network!
Submitted by Guest on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 21:58.I am sure that if I were a veteran TV writer I would get different things from listening, but as a wannabe screenwriter , it was great to really understand how TV (and specifically sitcoms) are made. Having listened to the whole series, I now really have a sense of what it means to be a TV screen writer. Now, I have to actually do some writing.