An interview with David Milch, acclaimed and multiple-Emmy-winning television writer and executive producer.

See the Cyberspace Open pages for details at http://creativescreenwriting.com/cyberspace.open.2010.html

Just like in features, concept is king in TV development, and the criteria for what makes an idea workable (fresh, compelling, and real) are very specific. Erik Bork will detail what he has learned from experience presenting dozens of ideas to networks, studios, producers, and his own agents at CAA.

All great scripts are about problems that desperately need to be solved. Learn the keys to getting a reader emotionally invested in what your characters want and can’t have – and how to build that investment as the things they try to fix get worse and worse.

More than a thousand entrants, and it will be down to the final three in the new Cyberspace Open, the web version of the CS Open sceene-writing competition. The three finalists' scenes will be performed live before the audience at the Closing Ceremony, which will pick the winner. Also at the Closing Ceremony: Don't miss the free "raffle ticket" giveaways, including a free trip to the 2010 Expo, free subscriptions to Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and, if they consent, free stuff signed by Guests of Honor. And, of course, one lucky (we hope) registrant wins a free Bill's Barbecued Planked Salmon cooked right before you and up to 50 of your friends (you supply the party, the location within 30 miles of Los Angeles, and the barbecue, and the publisher of Creative Screenwriting comes to your location with the salmon and cooks this delight for you).