{"id":2163369,"date":"2025-11-18T02:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163369"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:13:12","slug":"a-night-in-the-writers-room-drama-writers-mix-it-up-on-writing-process-time-spent-in-the-room-and-to-outline-or-not-to-outline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-night-in-the-writers-room-drama-writers-mix-it-up-on-writing-process-time-spent-in-the-room-and-to-outline-or-not-to-outline\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night in the Writers\u2019 Room: Drama Writers Mix It Up on Writing Process, Time Spent in the Room and to Outline or Not to Outline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">From the first question, Variety\u2019s A Night in the Writers\u2019 Room gathering of five drama showrunners was a lively affair as the scribes compared notes and reflected on how much television has changed in a short time.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing sparked up the session, moderated by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11747360\/\">Emily Longeretta<\/a>, Variety\u2019s senior TV features editor, like the discussion of how each showrunner prefers to work \u2014 and what it takes for them to actually get work done.<\/p>\n<p>For <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1646565\/\">Jennie Snyder Urman<\/a>, showrunner and executive producer of CBS\u2019 \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26591147\/\">Matlock<\/a>,\u201d she has to free herself from the desk to get creative juices flowing. The lengths to which she goes to get her work done surprised her fellow panelists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy writing process is tied to my walking,\u201d Urman said during the panel held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. \u201cI do that every day. I take my scripts for walks. My husband\u2019s gotten calls that\u2019s like,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the first question, Variety\u2019s A Night in the Writers\u2019 Room gathering of five drama showrunners was a lively affair as the scribes compared notes and reflected on how much television has changed in a short time. 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