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TV Writing Resource List This list includes recommended books, periodicals, works, and web sites. You may wish to bookmark this page so you can easily return to it.




Periodicals
Industry News
Broadcasting & Cable
Hollywood Reporter
Media Week
Variety
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Scriptwriting
Hollywood Scriptwriter
Written By
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Television
Entertainment Weekly
Paste
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Reference
Business
Writing for Episodic TV
Gervich, Chad. Small Screen, Big Picture
McNeil, Alex. Total Television
Stepakoff, Jeffrey. Billion Dollar Kiss
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Craft
Aristotle. Poetics
Brody, Larry. Television Writing From the Inside Out
Bull, Sheldon. Elephant Bucks
Dimaggio, Madeline. How to Write for Television
Douglas, Pamela. Writing the TV Drama Series
Egri, Lajos. The Art of Dramatic Writing
Epstein, Alex. Crafty TV Writing
Mendrinos, Jim. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing
Riley, Christopher. The Hollywood Standard
Smith, Evan. Writing Television Sitcoms
Trottier, David. The Screenwriter's Bible
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Directories
Hollywood Creative Directory
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Organizations
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Writers Guild of America
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Scripts
Drew's Script-O-Rama
Script City
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Television
Ain't It Cool
AV Club
Baseline Studio Systems
Buddy TV
Deadline Hollywood
Disney Writing Fellowship
Ep Guides
Hulu
IMDbPro
Internet Movie Database
Jump the Shark
NY Television Festival
Television Without Pity
The Futon Critic
TV by the Numbers
TV Guide
TV Overmind
TV Spy
TV Tracker
TV Week
Twiz TV
Warner Bros. Writers Workshop
Writer's Store
Yahoo! TV
Zap 2 It
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General Resources
Link List
Gotham Reading/Resources Lists
New York Times Navigator
Ref Desk
University of Texas Reference
Yahoo Reference
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Reference
Bartleby
Encyclopedia Britannica
First Chapters
Google
Google Earth
Google Maps
Lexis/Nexis
Library of Congress
National Geographic Atlas
Poets & Writers Tools for Writers
Shaw Guides
US Copyright Office
Wikipedia
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Words/Usage
American Heritage Dictionary
Associated Press Stylebook
Chicago Manual of Style
Elements of Style
Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus (online)
Oxford English Dictionary (2 volume)
Oxford English Dictionary (20 volume)
Oxford English Dictionary (online)
Roget's II Thesaurus (alphabetized)
Roget's International Thesaurus (categorized)
University of Calgary Grammar Guide
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