Screenwriting : Question? by Clevie J Padmore

Clevie J Padmore

Question?

Can you write more than one episode after the pilot??

Phillip E. Hardy, "The Real Deal"

I recommend a good pilot episode and a show bible outlining your first season episodes. There are plenty of bible examples available online.

Clevie J Padmore

thanks

Stephen Olson

How many episodes in a season?

Clevie J Padmore

13

Clevie J Padmore

So basically the summaries for few episodes will go into the series bible then? The Silvers Brothers

The Silvers Brothers

Yeah that's how I do it. Good luck!

Anna Marton Henry

It kind of depends. If you’re writing a serialized story, I’d suggest writing out season arcs for the characters and putting that in your pitch document / pitch bible. You can do it as episode summaries, but often it works better to do arcs for each character and/or each plotline. If you’re writing closed-ended episodes, you definitely want to write short descriptions of future episodes for your pitch. But in particular in the case of a procedural, a second script can be very helpful to cement how the show will work structurally, how you see the balance of “case” vs. “character”, and that the show really has future cases in it that you know how to flesh out.

Clevie J Padmore

Thank you Anna Marton Henry

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