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292. The Business of TV Writing

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How to Sell a Show Based on Your Life

With TV so much of it is interacting and dealing with other people and the writers room and being on set you've I guess they Starting out they they want that the younger, you know, baby writer someone who's good in a room. It can happen because if your experience being somebody who is older in life, right? You have you have a particular experience that only you can sell. And authority and experience actually plays well Into a brand new idea. A 20 year old doesn't have that authority experience has not lived that life So yes, it's still possible to pitch something like "American Horror Story: Coven" If People should not Look at what’s stopping them anything is

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