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Confront the problem early, head on, and earnestly - You may think that you have to come up with an artful way of bringing up a difficult interpersonal issue to a staff member. Guess what? You don't. Leave the florid writing and brilliant scene structures for the page. If someone is chronically hijacking the room, tell them firmly, but politely (and preferably privately) that \"You have a tendency to overshare, it's not always useful, and it undermines the times when what you have to say helps move the story forward,\" or \"You need to watch the jokes about people's personal lives, they come across as hurtful,\" or (and this was once said to me - and to this day, I thank the bearer of this statement) \"Your graphic descriptions of your self-loathing and body image issues are making the other writers uncomfortable, you may want to take your hand off the throttle.\" Life is not a script, and you don't have to excessively artful - or artfully impolite and cruel - to tell people what you need from them. If they push back, don't engage or become defensive, hear them out, and let them know that they have been heard but that - their defense notwithstanding - you have identified the problem and it worked on. This is often a crucial aspect of problem-solving: a lot of people just want to know that they are on the record, even if it doesn't change the outcome. Remember, you're not", "attrs": null, "subkind": "numbered", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "ab648510-dfb3-4a74-87f9-666f22829efb", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.35, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.18 }, "kind": "list", "text": "1. Throw the problem back at Doctor No - This one is simple, easy, and works 95% of the time. Doctor No tells you that they disapprove of something, you tell them \"You break it, you bought it.\" Your perception of a problem is worse than useless if you do not have a fix. If you can pitch an objection, but not a solution, you have not earned the right to speak: as showrunner, you get to express that to your writers, first in the most polite way possible, and then in escalating levels of exasperation until it sticks. In rooms I have run, I simply make a declaration of this early and often - you don't get to criticize if you don't show up in overalls with a toolbox. More importantly, expressing this is an important part of your job as a teacher: most writers' critical faculty develops earlier than the more craft-focused, patience-requiring, spade-and-trowel discipline of story generation and repair. If you don't correct this behavior early and often, you are causing yourself and other showrunners a lot more trouble down the line.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "numbered", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "ff133b48-9852-4b4a-97f4-e99d5ca803ce", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.02, "w": 0.11, "x": 0.78, "y": 0.96 }, "kind": "other", "text": "Page 36 of 48", "attrs": null, "subkind": "annotation", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "de6eb057-008a-4f4e-9750-11ef25f2728f", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.07, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.09 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Correcting bad behavior is one of your jobs, even if most showrunners don't do it because it requires... gulp... confrontation. 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