Writing Drama for Television

Join Jed as he goes deep into the anatomy of a television drama script. Spoiler alert: there’s more science in telling a story than you might think.

• Develop your idea into an outline
• Create compelling characters and setting
• Learn the science of story structure
• Write your pilot screenplay
• Build a series bible and shape your story arc
• Grow your career as a writer

• Writers are made, not born
• Inspiration
• Developing ideas
• What kind of show are you making?
• The setting
• Relationship between character and setting
• Starting the pilot
• The content of the pilot
• Story architecture
• Inciting incidents
• Science of a story
• Set-ups and natural story
• Story events
• Plots and subplots
• Episodes
• Projecting forward - the series bible part 1
• Projecting forward - the series bible part 2
• Coefficients of narrative power 1
• Coefficients of narrative power 2
• Coefficients of narrative power 3
• Dialogue
• Attenuators of narrative power 1
• Attenuators of narrative power 2
• Attenuators of narrative power 3
• Mastering your craft
• Fallacies
• Rewriting and collaboration
• Career development