WRITING A TV SERIES BIBLE SERIES
That means, however good your series bible, there’s a very good chance the Reader will simply skim over it. They’ll start off with a lengthy synopsis usually, maybe a page each for character profiles, a lengthy note on background of the story, why the writer has chosen this story to tell… STOP RIGHT THERE! Readers don’t get paid extra for series bibles usually. Length. Most series bibles I see are TOO LONG – ten, fifteen, even twenty pages. They might spend a lot of time on them, they might skirt around them – the end result is the same. A series bible is another chance to really SELL your script and your story and 9/10 writers forget this. They’re boring. Well, first off, a lot of them are just really dull. I read a lot of these too now for people and I have to say – as good as many of those good TV specs flying about are, a whacking 95% of ’em are let down by their series bible. Yet how do you “stand out” from the rest of ’em? Well, for me, that’s a no-brainer: you write a rocking spec series bible*.
WRITING A TV SERIES BIBLE MOVIE
Perhaps it’s page count that daunts writers perhaps it’s the necessity to “simply” movie plots (in comparison to TV series, which can be more convoluted?) perhaps it’s because people watch more TV than films? But for whatever reason, I would be willing to wager on there being more good TV specs out there than features, if all of them doing the rounds were piled and counted and judged in the same place (yikes!). This is interesting to me, because I would still venture that only about a maximum of 20% of features in the slush pile are good in contrast. And a helluva lot of them, perhaps as much as 50%, are good I reckon. Just a few short years ago, those who wrote TV series specs were unusual since the explosion of contests and various Writersroom initiatives, there are TV scripts flying all over the place it seems.
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