Television Writing from the Inside Out: Your Channel to Success

By Larry Brody

Book Overview

Television Writing from the Inside Out is a how-to book with a difference: Larry Brody is a television writer-producer who has helped shape the medium. The book is rooted in experience, and told in the breezy style that is the trademark of Brody and his award-winning website TVWriter.Com, which has helped launch the careers of many new writers. The information given by Brody and the manner in which he gives it has made him a writing guru to thousands of hopefuls.

Television Writing from the Inside Out covers: what writing jobs are available; the format, structure and stages of teleplay development; tips on the writing of different genres - drama, comedy, action, the television film, soap opera, animation; and sample teleplays by Brody and others, with analyses of why they were written the way they were in terms of creativity, business, production and "insider politics."

Television Writing from the Inside Out presents all that Larry Brody has learned about writing, selling and surviving in the television industry. The best-kept secret in show business has been that it is a business, but Brody's readers will know the truth - and armed with their new knowledge, they will have a significant edge as they set out to conquer this fascinating field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557835012
• ISBN13: 9781557835017
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Applause Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Good book

Television Writing from the Inside is a very good guide. Larry Brody writes from experience and it shows. If you found this book helpful, you will also likely enjoy Starting Your Television Writing Career by Abby Finer. Another very good book.

Great Insider Advice

Larry Brody has an amazing breadth of knowledge about what makes the Television industry work. This book is a fantastic look into the workings of the industry. He is cleary an authority on the subject, having penned over 500 hours of television. My only reservation in recommending this book to everyone is that it's been a long time since Larry stood outside the industry looking in. The landscape has changed and Larry is already a barnacle on the television whale, far out to sea. For those stuck on the rocky shore, this book might be more useful if you already have screen credits and want to leverage your position with knowledge about how the industry works.

Get it

If you're an experienced television writer read it.If you're an aspiring television read it twice.It's jammed with all the knowledge and you need and, possibly more importantly, how to impliment it.

Packed from cover to cover with Brody's insider experience

TV writer-producer Larry Brody uses Television Writing From The Inside Out : Your Channel To Success to explore a medium he helped shape, discussing writing jobs available in TV work, considering teleplay development and writing for different genres, and including sample teleplays by Brody and others complete with analysis. This "nuts and bolts" reference is a recommended pick because it's packed from cover to cover with Brody's insider experience and knowledge of how the industry works.

For the *serious* aspiring writer

Larry Brody knows TV, and he's distilled a lifetime of experience into this book.If you're serious, and ready to work hard at your writing, read Brody--and then start writing.