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I get it. Eventually, all showrunners will have to spend some time sitting on that leather couch frame-fucking the work. We're messianic visionaries with an idiosyncratic \"creative process,\" and it is inevitable.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "28a85d64-9d4a-4a0e-beb7-80676e1bf461", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.07, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.32 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The trick to maintaining a healthy balance between the editing room and the writers room is to not fool yourself into thinking that post-production is where the show truly is - and to recognize that, more often than not, post is where the fearful go to hide from their writers.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "29cdbd40-5eec-4543-ab08-4b20c299cfbf", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.03, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.11 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "If you are a showrunner and you're wondering whether or not you're great in post, then you probably aren't.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "32674ca7-42cc-4571-8ee4-5497da7b6a72", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.07, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.41 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The most egregious offender I have encountered in this respect was a showrunner (yes, another one whose work I guarantee you respect and admire) had a ratio of hours spent in editing versus time spent in the writers room that was easily ten to one.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "35281e3c-7c2b-4274-a442-72b548674e5a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.13, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.72 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The result of this showrunner's contempt for the writers room - and his insistence on dwelling in the editing room - was a vicious cycle. Having only enough endurance for us trolls to sign off on the broadest strokes of a story, the showrunner was setting up every one of his writers to fail: a situation exacerbated by his being an extremely tough and punitive grader. 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