For many writers, the passion for creating starts at an early age. For Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures, Christopher Robin), this was absolutely true thanks to her English teacher mom. She happily recalled:

There are many pathways in when it comes to making it as a writer. For Gina Yashere (Bob Hearts Abishola), that path was anything but direct. In fact, for the longest time she didn’t even think of being a writer. She was an engineer, but her love of ...

There’s a common piece of advice for writers, and that’s to always be writing. Showrunner Joe Henderson (Lucifer) got a jump start on those words of wisdom as he was already writing stories in second grade, never knowing where those stories, and that...

It's a question so many have. Can I break into film and TV while living outside Los Angeles? The truth is yes, as there are so many different paths writers can take to break in. Although getting your start from across the country can raise extra chal...

There are many avenues writers can take on their journey to becoming a television writer. One significant pathway is going the assistant route and working up the ranks to staff.

Known as a go-to writer for genre, showrunner Eric Wallace’s journey into television started as a 6-year-old really into horror movies, Godzilla and Frankenstein. That passion has taken him from fun childhood filmmaking to show running. Wallace recal...

FBI: International writer Kristina Thomas related her path into writing television to the famous image of a straight line to get you where you need to compare with the reality of a line all balled, jumbled, and twirled around that eventually gets you...

Kung Fu’s Richard Lowe didn’t come from a family of storytellers. His parents had their own business and conversations around the dinner table rose out of newspaper articles that Lowe’s mom clipped from the local paper. Although Lowe didn’t really ma...

For showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker (Abbott Elementary, Harley Quinn), their interests in writing came in very different ways. With Halpern, it was a competition to write a Seinfeld spec when he was just 16 where the winner had the ...