Constance Gibbs is a multidimensional creator of words, images, and social strategy.
This weekend I finished my first official spec script! I call it my first official script because I actually sent it out to the Nickelodeon Writing Program. It was due to be postmarked by midnight on the 28th and I arrived at the post office 45 minutes before they closed at 4pm. Since completing it only a few […]
I don’t really do New Years Resolutions, but I’d love to finish something I write this year. My first challenge? Finishing a spec script. Tis the season for TV writing fellowship submission deadlines and I think I am going to take a crack at actually submitting something. So, right now, I am working on a spec script […]
Spec Inspiration: How to Raise the Stakes by Challenging a Character’s Identity Make the character prove his point. Once your character’s identity has been challenged, make him or her prove that the challenge is incorrect. This idea might help me with my Scandal spec. I’ve been struggling with giving Olivia more to do. She has […]
later: Ok. It’s not nearly as bad as that (there’s a vague idea of a plot and characters are interacting blah blah blah), but it’s somewhere in the vicinity. Every time I think I have a handle on my outline, I write to a later scene and everything before comes into question. Recently I heard […]
This year, I’m taking my love of TV and desire to write for it a step further. I am currently an intern at the Gotham Writers Workshop here in New York and we get to take a free writing class. I decided, of course, to take their TV Writing class–10 weeks of learning how to […]