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Throw the problem back at Doctor No - Doctor No tells you that they disapprove of something, you reply \"You break it, you bought it.\" 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, first politely, then in escalating levels of exasperation until it sticks. More importantly, expressing this is an important part of your job as a teacher: the 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 Doctor No-ism early and often, you are causing yourself and other showrunners more trouble down the line.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "numbered", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "274deba5-4a34-4e15-8382-67a9c4339f73", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.14 }, "kind": "list", "text": "3. The Politician/Manipulator/Insulter - This refers to those who, through either tone-deafness, a desire to be heard and appreciated, or just plain malice, use information divulged in the open forum of the writers room to publicly or privately hurt, undermine, or make a punchline out of the other writers. This can be especially cancerous: the room runs on a certain amount of trust and sensitivity, and repairing that trust is an exponential investment of time from the speed with which it can be broken.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "numbered", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "6fdb4746-f421-44d1-a58a-56f8bcb224c5", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.25, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.68 }, "kind": "list", "text": "2. Confront problems early, head on, and earnestly - 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 (this was once said to me, and to this day, I thank the bearer of the bad news) \"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.\" You don't have to be artful - or artfully impolite and cruel - to tell people what you need from them. 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Oftentimes the people doing these things do not realize that they are negative actors. Showrunners are often conflict-averse: many staffers will go through entire careers without ever being told they are behaving badly.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "fa349753-1559-477b-842e-b88271c075d5", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [ { "to": 21, "from": 4, "beatId": "da4c228f-5699-4710-a650-b0ac460707b7", "arcName": "Monroe's Motivated Sequence", "arcSlug": "monroes-sequence", "beatName": "Satisfaction", "beatSlug": "monroes-sequence-satisfaction", "evidence": "The presentation of the 11 laws satisfies the need established earlier.", "position": 2, "confidence": 0.8, "parentBeatName": "Turn", "parentBeatSlug": "turn" } ], "loops": [], "imagePathAlt": null, "thumbSrc": null, "thumbSrcAlt": null, "locked": true }