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  • I think this might be one of my most important points.

  • So I'm gonna set for what's amazing and exciting for you is that there are as many different types of dramas as you can make up in your head.

  • I'm opening the doors to my office, said that the next generation of writers can exist.

  • I really want you to come away with the knowledge of what it is to write for television, how to put together a television pilot, writing dialogue, character, power writer's room works I would have killed you know that, and you're gonna get to hear all the stuff that I never really ever tell anybody.

  • I have to think about your 1st 10 pages being all about who is my character.

  • How do I reveal my character as best as I possibly can take a pilot that you know well and break it down.

  • And so I thought we would do that with the scandal pilot.

  • In order to break those rules, you have to understand what the rules are.

  • I graduated from college and really felt lost.

  • I mean, truly felt lost.

  • I used to drive around the corner from the studio and Crile lunch hour and I would come home with the end of a very long day and I pull up my laptop and I would work on my script.

  • That script is the script that got me an agent that got me a job that got things happen for me.

  • People are dying for good writers right now.

  • Remember that you belong in any room that you enter.

  • And if you don't feel like you truly belong, act like you.

  • What you should be doing right now is sitting down to start writing immediately.

  • There are so many people out there who feel like television has these secret keys to its kingdom.

  • Let's take those keys and unlock the doors.

  • Let's figure out what's back there.

  • I'm gonna tell you what I know.

I think this might be one of my most important points.

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