Ensure that your script is properly formatted —that means everything from 12-point Courier font to professional looking scene headings, action lines, and transitions (don't go overboard on that ...

cottonbro/Pexels. One page in a screenplay is roughly equivalent to one minute of screen time. A typical script for a feature-length film runs 90–120 pages, or one-and-a-half to two hours.

So to help launch Variety‘s new “Hollywood How-To” video series on writing a script, we asked Lindelof to talk through some of his process as a television writer. Here’s what he had to say. 1.