"The best way to forestall the development of a scenario is to keep your events episodic," wrote Norman Mailer in his book Oswald's Tale.
"Psychiatric crises are episodic," he writes, "but they cut deep into relationships and the lacerations take years to mend".
The loose, episodic story written by Mr. Ferreri and Sergio Bazzini opens abruptly with Mr. Piccoli's character, Glauco, standing in a noisy room that looks like some kind of factory or laboratory.
One of the challenges of writing episodic TV is creating high enough stakes every week.
A Japanese author, who mirrors this book's author, broods on the life and works of William Blake while writing some episodic fiction that closely resembles this novel.
Frank Pugliese and Tom Fontana won a Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Achievement in Television Writing for Episodic Drama for the "Night of the Dead Living" teleplay.
Episodic, scrappy – Stevenson wrote the first 15 chapters in 15 days, clearly patching it together from beachcombed bits and bobs of Ballantyne and Robinson Crusoe – Treasure Island is a troubling example of a novel that far exceeds the sum of its parts; like all great books, it is mysteriously self-excelling.
Following early essays on Arab-Israeli themes, he began to write episodic historical plays: Trotsky, Etc (1969); Skandalon (1970), based on the life of the professional cyclist Fausto Coppi; Jim le téméraire (1972; "Jim the Lionhearted"), an alternative vision of Nazism; and Le Pique-nique de Claretta (1973; "Claretta's Picnic"), about the rise and fall of Mussolini.
It is an episodic form particularly amenable to writing about families, as Susan Minot showed with her first book, "Monkeys".
I have come late in life to writing my first episodic television, but I was guided by two expert producers, George Faber and Mark Pybus.
He outlined the events in his Cronica in year to year accounts; for this he has gained criticism over the years for writing in an episodic manner lacking a unifying theme or point of view.
