Screenwriting : Writing a tv show by Timothy Steele

Here's a short exercise I like to do when I hit a snag. Write a scene with your character living your life. How do they feel about you, your job, your friends etc... this exercise helps me with character build. I agree with Oliver,revisiting your theme is a great way to reconnect.

Also, prompts and writing sprints are great too.

Thanks guys it's just a pilot right now but thanks for the help

Set the script down and do housework. I usually find about the time I am cursing housework while scrubbing a toilet the writers block magically disappears.

I usually work on a different project. It's helps a lot. Where you can't think on project one...usually I can pick right up on project two.

Thanks everyone

Hi, For writer's block, I find it helpful to go for a run, it seems to free up my mind and leave some space for thinking again ! Hope this helps. regards, Kathleen.

I find researching characters, plot and arcs. The more research I do and the permission to write sh&t, avoids a block, at least for me. We can't rewrite anything until it's written. It's that quest for perfection (which by the way, can never be reached) sometimes locks my brain. Best of luck to you.

The bad guy needs to do something, that will help push it along....Plus a treatment may help, then you know where you're going

If you;re fifteen pages into the pilot and stuck, go back to your outline or beat sheet. Revist your concept and story. Did you flush out your story enough? Are your Acts plotted out? Victor bring up a good point, step back and work on something smaller. Let your mind work on it and you might find your "A ha!" moment. Sometimes you should ask yourself "how would my character get out of this situation".

When I'm stuck on one part of a script instead of panicking about this section that I'm clueless on, I'll move on to a part or a scene that I know I need and just write that. Instead of feeling the need to write in order I treat it like putting together a puzzle, do the parts that are easy and then the difficult stuff starts to work itself out on its own.

Outline! And break a leg!

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Do you already know your ending? This works for me every time, but if I do get stuck, I walk away for a while and in the middle of the night when I'm trying to fall asleep, a scene, a conflict or even a new character emerges and I just got to get up and finish writing that scene. Remember, every scene has a beginning, a middle and an end. Good luck, Tim, buddy.