There’s a marvelous post over at Io9 that you really must read. It’s titled, “Inside the writers room: Top scifi TV writers reveal tricks of the trade,” but it really isn’t about genre writing, and it really isn’t about tricks of the trade. What it is, is an in-depth exploration on exactly what the working environment is like in a scripted TV show. To anyone unfamiliar with that environment, especially someone with a connection to writing outside that realm, it’s an eye-opener. I already knew, from my few screenplay attempts, that the mechanics of writing were very different between scriptwriting and prose. But I had no idea how different the working environment is in TV.
I might share a job-title with the writers on Lost, but we are actually doing two very different things.
