The Writers' Room Survival Guide: Don't Screw up the lunch order and other keys to a happy Writers' Room

by Niceole Levy

Overview

Writers’ rooms can be a heaven or hell, depending on a few things. The best rooms foster inclusive and productive creative flow. The worst create a toxic stew of bad feelings and doubt. Both kinds and everything in between require basic knowledge of how the room works. These fundamentals are best learned before you go in. The mystery box of the writers’ room need not stay sealed shut forever. Consider this book your crowbar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615933464
Publisher:	Wiese, Michael Productions
Publication date:	10/04/2022
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Niceole grew up under the bright stars of the Mojave Desert before swapping them for bright lights of Los Angeles. Studying acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts yielded the epiphany that she preferred writing. She worked as a police dispatcher to pay her way through undergraduate USC, and then completed the Master of Professional Writing program, also at USC. An alum of the CBS Writers Mentoring Program, NBC’s Writers on the Verge, and the WGAw Showrunner Training Program, Niceole has written on Ironside, Allegiance, The Mysteries of Laura, Shades of Blue, Cloak & Dagger, Fate: the Winx Saga, and S.W.A.T. She also co-wrote a feature, The Banker, with former Allegiance showrunner and director George Nolfi, available on AppleTV+. Niceole is currently a co-executive producer on Graymail, which will air on Netflix, and has several TV and feature projects in development. The Writers’ Room Survival Guide is her first book.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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