Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
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Comment preview: It's worth noting that The Heat was also written by a woman - [an alumna from my college](http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2013-04-29.7784885734/article.2013-05-24.1877466249) actually! She also worked on Parks & Rec. I'd be interested to see which ....
Comment preview: Every episode is a little different, but in general stories ideas are pitched by writers in the room, approved by the showrunner(s) and then assigned to one particular writer to take the lead on. (It's not necessarily the writer who originally came up wit ....
Comment preview: this is an ongoing debate in the writer world: spec or original. The dissatisfying answer is "both," because nothing impresses me faster when I'm looking for a new writer than an original pilot rubber banded to a good, solid Modern Family or Parks and Rec ....
Comment preview: So, you'd like a "great writer" to research and write in a "unique" style with citations essentially an article a day. The writer may need to blog and write product copy on top of that. For a decent article, it'll take a "great writer" most of a day. At $0 ....
Comment preview: Who are you thinking of? I found [this list of TOS writers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_writers). I don't know how to define "popular" in terms of writers, so I'll start with the writers who wrote the most episodes o ....
Comment preview: There is a huge difference in how TV and Film assign credit. For example, TV gives almost all credit to its writers. Due to its inherently episodic format and because directors come and go, writers do all the heavy lifting. They develop the characters, th ....
Comment preview: I'm going to guess a few things about you, and I hope it helps shed some light. Writing is important to you. Being a writer is kind of part of your identity at this point, and in some nebulous way you see yourself writing, and maybe even being successful a ....
Comment preview: I'm a writer, and I feel you. This may help. It's about writing, but it'll apply to the artist's dilemma as well. From John Gardner s *On Becoming a Novelist*: "In my own experience, nothing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety t ....
Comment preview: >Int. writers' room, four episodes from the end **Head writer:** Okay guys, we're almost at the end and we've only had one successful character hookup. Who can we shoehorn together in a vaguely believable pairing? **Writer 1:** Well it can't involve the ....
Comment preview: >The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with that of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. If he is a writer of fiction he lives ....
Comment preview: I'm so torn by this. I really want more opportunities to present themselves to non-white, non-male writers/artists in the industry. But I also subscribe to the idea that your work speaks for itself and should transcend your ethnicity/orientation/gender ide ....
Comment preview: > "I am never short of ideas I'd love to explore, but I can never seem to translate this into writing." Well, time to break out /r/writing's most overused and most useful piece of advice: Write. Writers write. If you don't write, you're not a writer. H ....
Comment preview: I think you're missing the single biggest key to the success of dramatic television and that is WRITING. And this doesn't go back to the Sopranos. Many of the premium cable TV shows are direct products of relatively eclectic network television. David Chase ....
Comment preview: If the writing is done in a board room with a bunch of older wrestlers present, that could be the cause of the shitty development. This is what happens in a lot of companies where they try to streamline creativity and they end up with mediocre crap. If WWE ....
Comment preview: * Non-fluent writing: **A good writer** makes your eyes flow through the letters, making your reading as quick as thought. Even Tolkien with his long ass descriptions was very fluid. **A bad writer** makes you struggle with every sentence, and makes the id ....
Comment preview: This one is good for me because I have a different story than the other Community writers on this AMA. I was hired as a writers assistant in season 2. The main job of that position is taking/organizing writers room notes and formatting/publishing scripts ....
Comment preview: No. Way. This is seriously the AMA I've been waiting for. I'm graduating film school (Tisch) this May and my concentration is in comedy writing for TV. There's probably no show I'd rather work on than Family Guy; not because it's the best or funniest...but ....
Comment preview: There are many ways in. You could write an amazing spec and/or an amazing pilot that gets you representation from an agent or manager, which then gets you a TV staff writing job. You could work your way in as the Production Assistant on an existing show ....
Comment preview: The reason: There are more male screenwriters/more male-written screenplays being green lit. Writers typically write the main character to be similar to them. Same sex, same race. It's easier to write a character you can relate to, or one you would want to ....
Comment preview: Writer: "I came up nice recipe for a Vegetable stew!" Vince: "GREAT. When do we stick in the Cena Beef?" Writer: "Um....this recipe doesn't call for any Beef....it's vegetarian" Vince: "WHAT! A PERSON WHO DOESN'T EAT MEAT IS HARDLY A PERSON AT ALL DAMNIT!" ....
Comment preview: >Rob: Soo I had this idea for joke. >SNL Writer: Oh yeah? >Rob: So there's this guy who works in an antiques store, right - and he looks and sounds like a bit of hippy. You know - the sort of guy who might smoke weed and stuff. >SNL Writer: Oka ....
Comment preview: >They also put my sister the pulmonologist through medical school, and as far as I know nobody ever asks her to perform a quick lobectomy I once read in an IAMA that doctors don't mention their profession on parties because the other guests are bound to ....
Comment preview: I would absolutely support this. Bring back as many of the writers from the latter seasons of TNG and the whole arc of DS9. Divide them in to two groups: 1) Episodic writers, charged with writing the filler episodes, the one-off species, the bottle shows, ....
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