title: Writing Television Sitcoms: Revised and Expanded Edition of the Go-to Guide
author:  Evan S. Smith 
description: "Everything a beginning television writer needs to know about the TV industry and writing scripts for sitcoms" <br />-"Writers Write"<br /><br />?Everything a beginning television writer needs to know about the TV industry and writing scripts for sitcoms? <br />?"Writers Write"<br /><br />
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  **Writing That  
  Sitcom**
  
  
  **A how-to guide  
  
  
  (with occasional pep-  
  talks and interventions)**
  
  
  **James Cary**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Text copyright © James Cary, 2015
  
  
  The moral right of the author has been asserted and all rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _So, about this book I’m holding/e-reading/had implanted in my head some time
  in the future. What exactly is the point of it?_
  
  
  It’s a book about how to write sitcoms, should you wish to do so. I don’t
  offer any hard and fast rules or formulae, because there isn’t one way to
  write a sitcom, and there’s no Grand Unified Theory of Comedy that I’m aware
  of. If there is, I’m an unlikely candidate to come up with it.
  
  
  _You’re not exactly selling it_.
  
  
  Okay, the book does offer lots of practical guidance on getting started,
  keeping going, generating ideas, getting your script out there and seeing the
  darned thing through to the bitter end.
  
  
  _Bitter end? You sure about that?_
  
  
  Writing a sitcom is incredibly draining, frustrating and