TV WRITING TOOL KIT: HOW TO WRITE A TV PILOT THAT SELLS - 2ND EDITION Paperback – October 30, 2021

I’d been a fan of the author after watching her videos on YouTube and had read a previous book. This is a great guide to constructing a series and a pilot script. Thoughtful and genuine guidance from a top pro insider a big thumbs up for this book. I also appreciated the brevity resulting from clarity and precise nature of the instruction.

Book very help especially if you are a beginner as it shows the part and the busines part of tv writing.

Wish I had bought this before tackling screenwriting. Very useful.

I come from a novel and film writing background, so when I was asked to write a TV series, I needed to study up! SO thrilled I found this book! I knew Jen from her sterling rep in the industry, and now I know why. She's both knowledgeable and caring, a rare find. I treasure this book as well as her others, and am grateful for the help and inspiration!

There is some good info in here, but it's not really very helpful when it comes to the actual writing of a script. It does give some ideas of what might work to sell the script, but the examples really don't seem to explore the exploding cable TV networks which are buying lots of shows.It's a very boring read, stilted and it sounds like it's coming more from the place of a corporate view than a writer's view. That's not necessarily bad, unless you title your book "TV Writing Tool Kit: How to Write A Script That Sells." A better title would have been something in the range of what the major networks want in a TV series and why they don't bother to buy many any more.

This is a great book to have if you aspire to some day be a working TV writer. I found the book to be helpful in understanding what it takes to write a strong spec script and pilot script. Jen has a great way of explaining the elements of TV writing that will turn a good script into a great script. I highly recommend this book.

As a working tv writer, I occasionally read writing books to have a few to recommend and keep myself sharp. This one will not be among those I recommend. It's generally useless. Too vague to be that useful. The best thing I gleaned from it was the importance of using loglines to find the core of your story. It almost felt like one of those vague articles in script magazines that are really advertising a writing seminar... then I see Ms. Grisanti makes her living as a script consultant. So I guess if you want more from her, you need to sign up for her services. Based on this book I wouldn't recommend that either.

I've purchased several books from screenwriters turned authors and none of them lay it out like this one. This book practically guides you, step by step from a production point of view and not from a writer who thinks they know what a producer wants. If you're serious about writing for TV, this is one book that better be on your shelf.

I’m not a snob about self-published books but this one badly needed an editor or at least a proofreader. Ironically for a book about writing, it’s badly written, error-ridden, rambling, repetitive and badly structured - like the transcript of an impromptu talk. Had to stop reading as it was doing my own writing more harm than good. There are decent TV writing books out there but this is not one of them.