A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.
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TV is where a writer can write his novel.
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
Great writing makes great television.
TV is a writer's medium.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
TV is the place that writers want to be.
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
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