The Writer"s Road Map is your quintessential guide to writing one hour Television shows, whether you are a confirmed couch potato with a good idea for a TV series or a professional writer looking for a new medium to stretch your literary muscles. The writing exercises are designed to get your teleplay idea and/or your episode for an already existing series down on paper in the TV industry format. Follow Webber"s trademarked Writer"s Road Map and you will complete two marketable one hour scripts with ease! The book"s meticulous design provides for several rest points with exercises and rules for lifelong script writing. Gardner"s Guide to Television Scriptwriting: The Writer"s Road Map includes information on the different television genres, the basic four act structure, tv plot gimmicks, character types and motivations, scene construction, dialogue devices, themes, prose and rewrite lists. Learn the proper format and how to pitch your idea once it is written. Additionally this book contains a TV-ography of over 70 show references, a detailed glossary of popular industry terms, and a full length television script to provide a realworld example. Hollywood"s waiting; the vehicle is ready, and you have the Map.