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The Writers'
Room

Before the delivery schedules and the dashboards, there was Final Draft. This page collects years of scripted work in one place: television specs written inside beloved shows, original pilots, selected pages from feature screenplays, and the best entries from a meet-cute series that now runs to around 1,967 individual stories. Every piece opens as a PDF, formatted the way it was written.

Television

TV Scripts

Two spec episodes written inside existing shows, the standard proving ground for TV writing: matching an established voice, structure, and cast so precisely that the episode could air next week. And two original pilots built from a blank page.

Spec Script
What We Do in the Shadows
Spec Episode · FX
The Show
FX's Emmy-nominated mockumentary about four centuries-old vampire roommates fumbling through modern life on Staten Island.
The Episode
The Vampires discover their arch-nemesis, a wizard, has reappeared. Luckily for them he is still a child, and his powers have not fully matured. The Vampires scared, that they could actually die for the first time in hundreds of years, work together to destroy this evil mini wizard threat.
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Spec Script
American Dad!
Spec Episode · Animated Sitcom
The Show
The long-running animated sitcom about CIA agent Stan Smith, his family, and the alien living in their attic. This spec is written to the show's exact rhythm, with an A/B story structure that collides by the third act.
The Episode
Steve is shocked to discover his mom has been paying girls to go out on dates with him since he was little. He vows to get a girl to go on a date with him, all by himself, without the help of his mommy.
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Original Pilot
We're In A Cult Drinking The Kool-Aid
Original Comedy Pilot
The Pilot
An original half-hour comedy pilot. The title is not a metaphor.
The Story
Davis-oly is on a mission to recruit new members so his cult can ascend off Earth. He finds Lloyd and brings him back to teach him all about the cult. Lloyd questions all of their crazy beliefs and soon finds himself trapped, unable to escape.
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Original Pilot
Off The Grid
Original Pilot
The Pilot
An original pilot about what happens when you actually unplug from modern life, and everything that follows you off the grid anyway.
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Features

Screenplays

Selected pages from two feature screenplays, chosen to show the writing rather than hand over the whole draft.

Feature Selection
Silver Foxes
Feature Screenplay · Selected Pages
The Pitch
SILVER FOXES is a light-hearted action/adventure comedy in the vein of GOLDEN GIRLS forced to become spies.
The Story
Four spunky eighty-year-old women are yanked out of their Retirement Home and forced to become spies. Their first mission China.
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Spec Screenplay
For Sale
Spec Screenplay · Selected Pages
The Pitch
A Spec-Screenplay FOR SALE is an intertwined Multi-plot dramatic comedy in the vein of CRASH.
The Story
Burdened with family and financial problems, four individuals from different social classes think buying a house will solve all their problems. Instead, their lives get turned upside down with the housing market crash of 2008.
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The Archive

Favorite Meet-Cutes

The meet-cute is the rom-com's opening move: two strangers, one collision, and the whole movie hiding inside it. These come from a daily warm-up exercise: ten to twenty minutes, one pass, no looking back, starting from nothing but a location and two names. Improv, in written form. The series now totals around 1,967 individual stories, and the number on each entry marks its place in that archive, not a title. These six are the favorites: the ones where the characters clicked with no planning at all, and any one of them could keep going into a full script.

No. 79
Love At First Fries
College Rom-Com
The one that would not stop. This meet-cute kept going and going until it had to be shut down so Silver Foxes could get written. The two clicked instantly: she sticks to him like glue, and he is just dumb and naive enough to wander into every situation she creates. The clearest candidate here for a full college rom-com.
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No. 275
He Left Me?
From the Archive
A girl barges in hunting for her ex-boyfriend, only to find out he moved to another city. Now the poor guy who lives there is stuck consoling a heartbroken stranger in his own apartment.
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No. 1404
Sorry To Bother You
From the Archive
A cup of coffee is the best way to start the day. Unless someone will not leave you alone long enough to enjoy it.
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No. 1448
The Door!
From the Archive
Always be mindful of the door when using the bathroom at a college house party.
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No. 262
So Relaxed
From the Archive
A massage is supposed to be relaxing. Then a random guy bursts into the room: it is his first massage ever, he has no idea how any of it works, and he kills her carefully built zen one question at a time.
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No. 323
Camping Is Great
From the Archive
His camping trip was going exactly to plan. Then she showed up, and the weekend was never the same.
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