Television Writing from the Inside Out : Your Channel to Success

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Summary: Get it
Review: 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.

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Summary: For the *serious* aspiring writer
Review: 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.

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Summary: Packed from cover to cover with Brody's insider experience
Review: 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.

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Summary: Larry Brody is a genius, find out why...
Review: Within the covers of "Television Writing from the Inside Out: Your Channel to Success" Mr. Brody walks us step-by-step through the television industry. In the process, he introduces us to some of the key players (who he knows personally) through a number of well-placed quotes.

He also "talks" to the reader with a warm and comforting voice and in simple easy to understand language about all aspects of writing for TV. That alone is a feat of considerable value in an industry that can appear formidable from the outside. Mr. Brody makes television accessible. For that, he is a genius.

My advice to any writer for television or film is to buy this book.

I am a former Vice President of a software company who committed to a full time career in writing for television and films a year and a half ago. By now, I have heard and read enough good and bad advice about writing to know that this book, and Larry Brody's wealth of television experience, is worth a lot more than $12.57.

I read the book in two days and keep it close to my desk for quick reference. Thank you Mr. Brody.