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How to Write TV Script – Top Tips on How to Write TV Script Successfully

By James N West

We have all known the feeling of sitting down in front of the TV waiting for the show to start. But before long we can’t take anymore of the terrible plot, unrealistic events, confusing dialog and terrible direction. So take the plunge and write an award winning script by yourself, sure this is a huge task that requires a lot of thought and work. But if you arm yourself first with the essential script prose guide you will have no troubles. So I’m going to give you some hot tips on how to write TV script successfully.

TV Script Format

• A very large percentage of prose is in fact what not to write, in 90% in fact
• Keep it clean and simple, avoid too much filler.
• Find your centres of action? In prose TV script don’t focus on a whole group of people, this becomes very confusing.
• Centers of action, have only 2 or 3. This keeps the TV script simple.

Plot Characters

• Are they larger than life yet still recognisably from life?
• Cliches or Archetypes?
• Reveal your characters and their tale through the action as well as through the dialogue

Script Plot

• What keeps you hooked in to a show? What makes you lose interest?
• Open the show as dynamically as you can, too long a build up will cause viewer to thrash off. Get the viewer hooked ASAP and they will stay tuned to the end.
• Too much narration can bog the show down; remember the TV remote off button is only a finger tip away.
• Is there sufficient action, drama, or comedy?
• Keep a strong sense of character; this will carry the audience to the end.

These are just a small part of the vital tips and tricks of that you will need to succeed in this area, there are many people who try and give up because they approach prose TV script in the incorrect way. Don’t be one of those people.

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Writing longhand

I was asked “how do you physically do your writing?”

Well, it’s the connection between the hand and the brain really and
I don’t send in my manuscripts in longhand.

It’s the first contact with the idea is me and the page and I mean I can even go even further into that as I write by pencil and I have an eraser on the
pencil and so I erase that, it’s a very primitive form of cut and paste really and I do that and it just suits me Continued…

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Writing for the theatre


I’d been an actor, I know when you walk on the stage it’s a
different animal every night really, and they require different
things: sometimes that audience is slow, sometimes it’s ahead of
you, you know, and sometimes it’s very, very lazy and you’ve got to
work your butt off to get them Continued…

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The Characterisation Secret

This is an extract from the transcript of an intervew given by the
well known British writer Philip Martin.

The discussion was about a writer friend who was stuck because the publishers felt that his characters lacked ‘depth’

So I said to him, What about interviewing your characters?” And he
said, “Huh?” I said, “Look, you get a piece of paper Continued…

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