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Goal-Setting as a TV Writer: Planning Your Year Ahead (PT26)

Alex and Nick ring in the new year by discussing how they manage their TV writing goals and resolutions.

How can you prepare for a typical year in the TV writing industry? What tools can you use to track and manage your goals? What are some practical resolutions to have? What does Paper Team have in store for 2017?

The Paper Team looks at the year to come…

SHOWNOTES

Content

1 – Goals and Resolutions (00:28)
2 – Mapping out the TV writing year ahead (7:08)
3 – Tools to track and manage goals (15:40)
4 – Paper Team in 2017 (20:56)
Resources and Next Week On (23:10)

Links

SMART criteria
TV upfronts
YearCompass

Resources

r/GetDisciplined (reddit)
Jerry Seinfeld’s Don’t Break the Chain

Special thanks to Jason J. Cohn for helping us edit this episode.

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