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Inside the Writers’ Room: Post #6: How To Rewrite and Be Rewritten, Part I

By Christina Kallas

west_wing_1527547aOne thing’s for sure: people don’t go to writing to be rewritten. But they still are, first and foremost by the showrunner. The showrunner is the writer who tells the writers what to do, and who will eventually do it herself.

So should a showrunner polish the final draft of every episode to preserve the “voice” of the series, or should each individual writer be allowed to use their voice to bring out new sides to the characters and the series?