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You can't talk to everyone at all times, and eventually, you have a responsibility to take your talk from the theoretical to the real.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "06efe614-e473-4d7a-8f0f-2d959fe22aa2", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "script. Once assembled, the results were predictably patchy. The writers never recovered from the delay, the show never really found its voice, the season was poorly received, and the series never recovered.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "3ad92f7c-c31c-49c9-9a66-3dc71b4eb75a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "In the other cases, the showrunners merely emerged from their cozy little garret after neglecting their writers room for weeks on end, only to deliver exactly the story that had been broken by the staff on the board, and then pitched to the network and studio, and outlined. Much to everyone's shock and horror, our leaders had availed themselves of two months to accomplish what we would all be expected to do in less than a week per writer per draft for the remainder of the year.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "41b9eb01-2397-4e3e-a135-5caefe542a8d", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Yup. Real morale booster.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "7dc0c146-bc38-4814-b638-7d6b08a36c8f", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "That's what a script ultimately represents: the concretization of your voice and gesture. A script is the closest thing there can be to a finished product until you have a final cut. A script is your proof of concept, and if its fate is to fail that proof, then you are better off knowing sooner rather than later, so that you - and all of your employees - can go to work on fixing what's broken and right the ship while there is still time.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "885d5d26-b4c7-417e-a9e7-c25251ea16e5", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Your best ideas will survive criticism, the worst ones... well, let's just say that there's no amount of rework that can keep them alive, and that it may not be worth fighting so hard for every single one of your precious children anyway, because the horizon is full of other children, all of whom need your immediate attention and will quickly make you forget the ones you've had to leave behind...", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "a23692f3-01fe-46b1-9a1c-0ca9c67f2bc6", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Scripts are not just the cry of your wounded inner child - and those of the writers in your employ, by they way - but also the most crucial and efficient form of communication between cast, crew, studio, and network available to you. Write them quickly, rewrite them impassively and efficiently. Work your scripts until they are ready, but recognize that in a fast-moving business like television, most of the time they will only be ready enough.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "e290790d-6101-4353-b0eb-4887790a87ac", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [ { "to": 20, "from": 11, "beatId": "94101d7a-a104-4314-8826-40a0fd98d3c6", "arcName": "Monroe's Motivated Sequence", "arcSlug": "monroes-sequence", "beatName": "Satisfaction", "beatSlug": "monroes-sequence-satisfaction", "evidence": "The subsequent laws provide satisfaction by outlining solutions.", "position": 2, "confidence": 0.7, "parentBeatName": "Turn", "parentBeatSlug": "turn" } ], "loops": [], "imagePathAlt": null, "thumbSrc": null, "thumbSrcAlt": null, "locked": true }