Making My Start in Television
April 27th, 2007 by screenwriterguy
There were two main arguments with which I convinced myself that, lack of Douglas fir trees or no, I needed to move to L.A. The first was simply that I couldn’t expect to become a television writer anywhere else. The second, admittedly smaller, was that the number of industry events here had to be at least twenty times what Seattle could offer.
My reality–as I’ve settled into a home I love, found methods to support myself, and learned the patterns of L.A. traffic–is that tutoring is rarely compatible with industry events. Tutoring is fantastic for my writing schedule, allowing me to scrape by with a low-hour, high-wage work week. However, most events are scheduled in the late evening, and it’s rare that I can finish with a day’s students and then get across town in time to catch events.
So I’m all the more excited to discover a workshop being held on a Saturday by the WGA on May 19th, called “Breaking Into the Box: Making Your Start in Television.” They’ve booked several big-name showrunners and built in time to mingle with other attendees. Sweet. Plus, it’s reasonably priced, especially in comparison to most of the steady stream of workshops in town. I just signed up. Anyone else going?
My only problem is that I was hoping to have my 33 1/3 birthday party that day. After all, you only turn 33 1/3 once. (Of course, I’M not really that old. Comedy writers are in their twenties. Like me. One of my students tried to guess my age yesterday, and he stated quite definitively that I must be eligible to audition for American Idol.)
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