The creator of the television science-fiction series Babylon 5 presents a guide to writing and selling screenplays, television plays, theatrical plays, radio scripts and animation scripts. He explains how to structure and lay out the scripts, provides a guide to terminology used by the industry, and offers advice on getting work seen by the right people. The book also includes the complete script of a Babylon 5 episode, The Coming of Shadows, for which Straczynski won the Hugo Award.