ABSTRACT
In today's booming television market, many writers have set their sights on bypassing traditional career-building routes of staffing on television and then working their way up, and instead seek to break in by selling pilots, much as the subject of Screenwriter Spotlight. Writers already established in the television space may be able to bypass having to write out the entire pilot, and instead go directly to pitch meetings. Additionally, many writers find that analyzing pilots and even speccing the occasional episode of an existing show is a good way to get a grasp on pilot writing—although, due to the limited audience for spec scripts, this should be done on a schedule and never ad nauseam. While every emerging television writer with a great new pilot on his hands hopes to get a sale, not every writer has a clear understanding of what that sale would mean in financial terms.
