Let's say you are pursuing a screenwriting career, and are now writing feature specs to hone your craft. Your desire to write for a living outweighs format considerations - the decision of writing for TV versus the big screen is secondary to you. How do you choose?
Question 1: Are the odds of making a career writing features and pursuing open writing assignments better than getting staffed on a show?
Question 2: Do writers for big shows (Mad Men, Parenthood, etc.) ever get hired using a feature spec as a writing sample? Or are writers on network/cable shows always former writers on smaller shows?
Question 3: Do TV writers make the same annual income (on average) as decent feature writers?
Question 4: What % of TV writers would view writing features full-time as "graduating- out of TV? Is feature writing the goal of most TV writers?
Question 1: Are the odds of making a career writing features and pursuing open writing assignments better than getting staffed on a show?
Question 2: Do writers for big shows (Mad Men, Parenthood, etc.) ever get hired using a feature spec as a writing sample? Or are writers on network/cable shows always former writers on smaller shows?
Question 3: Do TV writers make the same annual income (on average) as decent feature writers?
Question 4: What % of TV writers would view writing features full-time as "graduating- out of TV? Is feature writing the goal of most TV writers?
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