The text discusses the importance of showrunners learning to collaborate and visualize story development, contrasting it with the architectural process of building from blueprints.

Architects can see buildings off blueprints. That's their job. Yours is to see the gross anatomy of the stories the writers pitch you off the shorthand of the board, and to let them run with the deta

When you sold your pilot, you didn't take an eight million dollar film of your script to the network meeting. You talked the executives through your idea for a series, the characters, and your story