Recently, Mr. Marland allowed a visitor to sit in on a weekly meeting with "As the World Turns" executives in the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street, as well as a story conference with the show's two outline writers.
They are a breed of writer who seem to thrive under pressure, keeping track of production requirements and supervising a staff of outline writers and dialogue writers even as they lay out plot lines six months in advance in book-length story projections.
Moynihan had originally submitted an idea to the outline writers, who in turn worked with him and rewrote it to produce the final episode.
Strauss-Kahn was referring to the theory outlined by writer and investor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who has argued that investors take too little account of unpredictable high-impact events.
Regarding the basic story line as outline, such writers, some of whom weren't even babes in their mothers' arms when the show opened, update lines, insert new characters, change or delete old ones and create new riffs on age-old material, remaining true to period in their fashion.
The documents show company executives came up with ideas for medical journal articles, titled them, drafted outlines, paid writers to draft the manuscripts, recruited academic authors and identified publications to run the articles — all without disclosing the companies' roles to journal editors or readers.
And we now have a neat little outline of the writer's career.
In this sequel to Cusk's remarkable novel "Outline," Faye, a writer and teacher, is glimpsed through conversations — with ex-boyfriends, real-estate agents, construction workers, family members, hairstylists.
Before the dialogue for a given episode gets committed to the page, before even an outline is devised, writer and producers talk at length about the biographies and motivations of their characters, elements that may never be presented on screen but are meant to inform every performance.
