Note: This is the third post in a three post series about writing a Spec Script. If you haven't read the first and second posts, you can find them here: Pre-Work and Plotting . In my first post, I came up with six steps to writing that spec script. As a refresher they are: 1. Choose a show 2. Study said show 3. Find a minor detail that you can spin into a plot 4. Outline your episode 5. Write that first draft! 6. Edit it! This post is going to focus on steps five and six, s

Note: This is the second post in a three post series about writing a Spec Script. If you haven't read the first post, you can find it here. In my first post, I came up with six steps to writing that spec script. As a refresher they are: 1. Choose a show 2. Study said show 3. Find a minor detail that you can spin into a plot 4. Outline your episode 5. Write that first draft! 6. Edit it! This post is going to focus on steps three and four, which are a bit of a puzzle, so let's

I just typed ‘The End’ for my first spec script. It’s a first draft, a very messy one (I did the actual writing in just four days), but it is a draft. So I thought it might be nice, for those of you who are thinking about writing your first spec script, to hear the process! First Things First, What is a Spec Script? A spec script for television is an episode written for a show already on the air. This script will almost certainly never be bought or produced—so why do it? Spec