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Nevertheless, it's on you to help your junior staff up the long ladder to mastery. The more well-considered your feedback, the better the scripts your writers will produce. It isn't some glacial process: give your staff accurate and specific information about what you want, and 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": "128b24f9-5b7e-41fa-8862-cdf742d09e0b", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.03, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.84 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "It sounds simple, and yet, many showrunners can't wrap their heads around that concept. 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Among the many keys to being a successful mentor is the understanding that - when you have a room full of writers of different ranks and levels of ability - they will all perform on the page, and in the writers room, differently.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "22866943-8147-4937-a226-5793b18cd408", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.13, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.5 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The assistant whom you promoted to staff writer as a reward for loyalty, hard work, and support - and because you read a spec script 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 to both give them thoughtful notes and rewrite their material, but also to muster the largesse to judge their work leniently.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "2ec3fd17-4adb-423b-9d25-2cc2ef35f22e", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.13, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.21 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The executive producer-level writer with twenty-five years of experience - who ran his or her own show last year and is now on your staff as your Number Two - should be reliably expected to turn in drafts in which the story and scene structure are solid, and the characters speak with a voice close to what you have established. 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