I think this might be one of my most
important points so I'm going to set up
for it what's amazing and exciting for
you is that there are as many different
types of dramas as you can make up in
your head I'm opening the doors to my
office so that the next generation of
writers can exist I really want you to
come away with the knowledge of what it
is to write for television
how would it put together a television
pilot writing dialogue character how a
writers room works I would have kill'd
know that and you're gonna get to hear
all the stuff that I never really ever
tell anybody you have to think about
your first 10 pages being all about who
is my character how do i reveal my
character as best as I possibly can take
a pilot that you know well and break it
down and so I thought we would do that
with the scandal pilot in order to break
those rules you have to understand what
the rules are I graduated from college
and really felt lost I mean truly felt
lost I used to drive around the corner
from the studio and krile lunch hour and
I would come home at the end of a very
long day and I'd pull out my laptop and
I would work on my script that script is
the script that got me an agent that got
me a job that got things happening for
lay people are dying for good writers
right now remember that you belong in
any room that you enter and if you don't
feel like you truly belong act like you
belong what you should be doing right
now is sitting down to start writing
immediately there are so many people out
there who feel like television has these
you know secret keys to its kingdom
let's take those keys and unlock the
doors let's figure out what's back there
I'm gonna tell you what I know
I'm shonda rhimes and this is my master
class