“You need to decide: television or movies. You can’t try to write both and expect either format’s producers to take you seriously.” “These days you have to be a generalist. You have to show you can be flexible and have proficiency in a wide range of formats. No one will take a chance on a new writer who appears to have a tunnel-vision approach to the industry.” “Stick to one genre. If you write comedy, become known as the go-to comedy writer. Anyone seeing you’ve written comedy specs and drama specs will think - and rightly so - that not only do you not know what you are doing, you don’t even know what you want to do.” “Have spec scripts in a wide range of genres. There’s too much money on the line for anyone to take a chance on someone whose abilities may be limited. If you can’t show them you can do more than one genre, they’ll assume you can’t.” “Send me a half-hour, a one hour, and a feature sample ...
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