Something happened as I studied the ideas and concepts in SCREENWRITING UNCHAINED, my creative passions started to shift, I started falling in love with longer forms projects. The whole world has as well. Streaming, 8 to 10 episodes, WESTWORLD, THE OUTSIDER, THE LAST OF US, no commercial breaks, creative possibilities, a deep dive you take into a world, deeper levels of character development, ensemble cast. I love it.

But how do you write it? I read A LOT of books on TV writing and structure. I kept running into dead ends, I struggled to find any book that would help me to write the kinds of writing structures for the type of projects that I saw on NETFLIX, HBO, PRIME, or APPLE.

I was still on my search to understand the elusive Streaming Series structure when I got a chance to be an early reader of WRITING A SUCCESSFUL TV SERIES, so I was really into it.

Firstly, while it will be a revelation for you to read SCREENWRITING UNCHAINED before you read WRITING A SUCCESSFUL TV SERIES, it is not necessary. The author has given the reader enough theory to allow for clarity. The book also offers a deep and updated examination of the state of tv/streaming around the world, a topic I found both interesting and insightful to consider creative approaches to television structure being used by writers in other parts of the globe.

The gold for me was to finally have an examination of the structure of the streaming series, the relevance of not having to write to commercial breaks, how to apply dramatic 3 act structure, fractal dramatic 3 act structure, the M-FACTOR, and the STORY-TYPE METHOD to your TV series tools which will offer the committed reader an opportunity for “organic” structure, greater narrative coherence and depth, and a method “the M-FACTOR” designed to add energy and emotional power to your writing.

With WRITING A SUCCESSFUL TV SERIES, Emmanuel has managed to do it again. This book is to “writing tv” what SCREENWRITING UNCHAINED is to the screenplay. Do yourself a favor…