Elephant Bucks: An Inside Guide to Writing for TV Sitcoms

Earn the really big money—and enormous satisfaction—writing television sitcoms.

This book is a comprehensive guide to writing that killer spec sitcom script and launching a career as a TV sitcom writer. Includes detailed inside information on how to choose the right series to spec, how to pick the right story and detailed, step-by-step instruction on how to write the scripts that will get you work. Also, how to use those scripts to get your big break in Hollywood. It includes unique first-hand experience on how to handle TV pitch meetings, freelance writing assignments, staff work, agents, executives and stars.

Sheldon Bull has been earning Elephant Bucks as a professional television sitcom writer, producer, and director for thirty years. His career has included writing for M*A*S*H, developing, writing and producing the hit CBS sitcom Newhart starring Bob Newhart, writing and producing the ABC hit sitcom Coach and producing, writing and directing the ABC hit series Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. He has worked on the staffs of eleven different prime time network television situation comedies and has personally written or rewritten over 300 sitcom episodes.