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The better and more well-considered your feedback and tutelage, the better the scripts your writers will produce. And it isn't some glacial process: give your staff the most accurate and specific information about what you want, and the most constructive feedback as to the how and why (and yes, describing to them WHAT to write counts - don't think they will resent your telling them exactly what you want the scene to look/sound like), and you will see marked improvement from script to script.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "058389e2-5525-4a4c-80b2-6df1939cb560", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.02, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.84 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "It's also wrong, and a disservice to your trade.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "8f8f28b3-e4e1-470e-b4a9-5f9ea1828bd6", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.47 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Because it's on you to help them achieve the level of mastery where their scripts look and read like those of the twenty-five year veteran. That's why. Just like it's also on you to make them responsible citizens of the writers room, and suggest to them when it's OK to criticize and when to hold back.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "b57c31da-b6d9-4fa9-9b2e-2547284c8346", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.06, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.77 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Funny how simple that sounds, and yet, many showrunners just can't wrap their heads around that concept. Sometimes it's just more expedient and less exhausting to give a younger writer a bunch of busywork until you find the time to fix it yourself.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "d402b6d7-a37e-4b2f-a104-5c51abc0c732", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.1 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "spec script of theirs that you don't really know how long they took to write (or how much input they had from others in its creation) - cannot be expected to deliver on that level. It's on you to not only budget your time and energy accordingly to give thoughtful notes and rewrite their material, but also to muster the largesse to judge their work more leniently and recognize where that beginning-level writer has performed at, or above and beyond, their level of skill.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "dc143eb0-bb22-4b4b-a35a-97e424cff7be", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.2, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.26 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "To most showrunners, this seems exceptionally unfair... and it is, to be honest, something of a damned nuisance. After all, staff writers have as much freedom to share their opinion and ideas in the colloquium of the writers room (and, frankly, many denizens of the lower levels avail themselves of that right way too freely when what they should be doing is shutting the fuck up and learning). Hell, just yesterday one of the staff writers had the audacity to suggest that one of your ideas wasn't all that good - and they didn't even have the good taste to pitch something with which to replace it! So why is it on you to grade them on a curve?", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "f3ae1e6f-e1e5-4413-baba-941e8787d91a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [ { "to": 48, "from": 21, "beatId": "da6bc3ad-4e18-49be-82a4-7fe91e0dbf47", "arcName": "Monroe's Motivated Sequence", "arcSlug": "monroes-sequence", "beatName": "Action", "beatSlug": "monroes-sequence-action", "evidence": "The final slides emphasize action and implementation.", "position": 3, "confidence": 0.7, "parentBeatName": "Resolution", "parentBeatSlug": "resolution" } ], "loops": [], "imagePathAlt": null, "thumbSrc": null, "thumbSrcAlt": null, "locked": true }