FOREWORD
I. Introduction
1. The People Part of the Writers’ Room
2. The Quickstart Guide
3.
There Is No One Way to Run a Writers’ Room
4. Surviving the Staff Writer Year
5. The Writing Part of Being in a Writers’ Room
6. Writers Schedules
7. Room Politics
8.
Oh, the Places You’ll Go… Once Production Starts
9. Moving On Up…
10. Mentoring
11.
Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Disability in the Room
12. Monsters
13. Being yourself, safely and confidently
14. Every room is about your future
15. Now That Your Career Is on the Rise
16.
On your worst days, remind yourself: someone is paying you to make television.
POSTSCRIPT
WRITERS
ROOM LINGO GLOSSARY
PAGES: Story area, outline, and synopsis examples
Acknowledgements
About the
Author