Do people constantly profess you're funny? Do friends and even more importantly, non-friends, laugh hysterically at your jokes? Ever dream of writing your own TV sitcom or working as a writer on a hit sitcom? Yes, you say to all of the above? Well then, this book is for you!

Whether you're a novice writer or a writer looking for a new medium to stretch your literary muscles, everything you need to know to turn your idea into a saleable TV sitcom pilot or sample spec script for an existing show is right here. Gardner's Guide to TV Sitcom Writing: The Writer's Road Map will guide you through various exercises, helping you turn your story ideas into a sitcom pilot script and/or a spec script for an existing series. This book will guide you in creating two sitcom scripts. Once you've completed two half-hour scripts, this book provides guidance for developing and pitching your TV sitcom pilot and/or existing series episode ideas to executives.

Regardless of your writing goals, Gardner's Guide to TV Sitcom Writing: The Writer's Road Map, will zoom you onto the road of sitcom writing in an easy manner. So stop wasting your brilliant jokes at the dinner table and start putting them on paper. By the time you finish Chapter One, you'll be on your way to a thrilling and prosperous career!

"What elements differentiate the successful sitcom writer from the mundane? They know and practice the "Road Map" principles outlined in this book, on every script they produce. Beginners and some seasoned writers will find these "Writer's Road Map" guidelines essential for transforming a mundane idea to a great one. The basics of what makes an idea salable are covered through different styles of comedy, sitcom character types, and more. ...an essential, core reference for any aspiring television sitcom writer."
--The Midwest Book Review

Gardner's Guide to Animation Scriptwriting is the place to go for information on writing Saturday morning cartoons or animation short films! This book is user-friendly, with illustrated text that takes you through the steps necessary to create a winning script. Detailed instructions so you won't get lost on your way to becoming a successful writer for Animation. Complete, concise and fun it's packed with real examples and exercises, that includes three formats for different age groups. All you need to know to get started.

"...you can arrive at the end of your scriptwriting road trip with a dumptruckload of useful information."
--Tom Franks, About.com

The Writer's Road Map is your quintessential guide to writing one hour Television shows, whether you are a confirmed couch potato with a good idea for a TV series or a professional writer looking for a new medium to stretch your literary muscles. The writing exercises are designed to get your teleplay idea and/or your episode for an already existing series down on paper in the TV industry format. Follow Webber's trademarked Writer's Road Map and you will complete two marketable one hour scripts with ease! The book's meticulous design provides for several rest points with exercises and rules for lifelong script writing.Gardner's Guide to Television Scriptwriting: The Writer's Road Map includes information on the different television genres, the basic four act structure, TV plot gimmicks, character types and motivations, scene construction, dialogue devices, themes, prose and rewrite lists. Learn the proper format and how to pitch your idea once it is written. Additionally this book contains a TV-ography of over 70 show references, a detailed glossary of popular industry terms, and a full length television script to provide a realworld example. Hollywood's waiting; the vehicle is ready, and you have the Map....

"Expertly explaining and illustrating the mechanics and unfolding of a typical TV script, she gives beginning and intermediate screenwriters tools for creation of scripts and for analysis of TV programs. Besides the "map" of a screenplay, the author discusses techniques and touches such as character "tics" and "plot gimmicks" which can make the difference between an outstanding script and a well-done, yet lackluster script. ...aspiring screenwriters would find this an important guide and handbook."
--The Small Press Book Review

Gardner's Guide to Feature Animation Writing: The Writer's Road Map teaches how to develop marketable animation stories and scripts. Through a simple analogy, you will come to understand the basics of writing for animated features while discovering the distinctions between animation and live-action scripts and examining feature animation genres. In addition, you will be given the tools to create cohesive plot structures for the animated screenplay, fascinating characters, original scenes, and dynamic dialogue. And if you are a bit intimidated about integrating comedy into your animation screenplay, never fear, for once you've mastered Chapter 14 on comedy cones, your script will have the reader laughing out loud. Includes the "secret" and scene-by-scene specific structure included in Gardner's Guide to Screenwriting, with some minor variations. By applying this structure creatively and effectively, your feature animation script will stand out among the thousands of scripts that circulate around studio lots.

The Writer's Road Map is for anyone who has a great script idea, but doesn't know how to write it. You will learn how to develop marketable stories, create interesting characters, construct strong script structure, pen sharp dialogue, weave interesting themes, and write original scenes. This book provides building block exercises to help you identify the story elements in other films, and strengthen the development of your own screenplay.

"Gardner's Guide to Screenwriting: The Writer's Road Map lays out the rules of screen writing in a clear and concise manner. From my first screenplay, Born Jaundiced (re-titled My Girl) to every script I have written since, these rules have kept me focused as I continued to hone my craft in the exciting and sometimes difficult world of Hollywood. The Writer's Road Map teaches you how to structure your screenplay, develop multi-dimensional characters, construct scenes, and craft interesting dialogue, which in turn, will help you write a more engrossing script. Your story will be better told and the blank page will no longer be intimidating."
--Laurice Elehwany, Hollywood Screenwriter

The most practical and inspiring book for the beginning and experienced screenwriter. Gardner’s Guide to Screenplay: From Idea to Successful Script, featuring the Eleven Step Story Structure, is hailed as the gold standard for understanding film story through character. It’s a how-to guide for turning an idea into a film story with a strong beginning, middle and end. The Eleven Step Story Structure provides an essential template, and gives lots of room for creative and original work. Gardner’s Guide to Screenplay: From Idea to Successful Script provides the tools to write a successful film script and necessary information on how to get the script into the marketplace. Full of examples and exercises and story breakdowns of major motion pictures, this book will stimulate your creativity.

Jule Selbo’s feature film credits include Hard Promises starring Sissy Spacek and William Peterson, Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Part Deux (winner of the Best Premiere DVD award), Cinderella Two (nominated for a Best DVD Premiere award) as well as projects for Paramount Pictures, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jim Henson Company, and Warner Brothers. She has produced and written over 200 hours of television, among her credits: George Lucas’ Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, HBO’s Prison Stories: Women On The Inside (Cable Ace nomination), Hercules, Life Goes On, Aaron Spelling’s Melrose Place, Space: Above And Beyond, MTV’s Undressed (Glaad Award nomination), Nickelodeon’s Sports Theatre as well as The Flash, Sinbad, Tales From The Darkside, Monsters, Search For Tomorrow (Writer’s Guild Award for Outstanding Writing). More animation work includes Disney’s Angela Anaconda, Higglytown Heroes, PBS’s Maya And Miguel.