Sublime

Your job is to make ideas come to life. The first step is tocommit. Commit early. Commit often.

It takes that level of ego to be a television writer/producer:the conviction that what you have to say matters so much that itis worth not only mastering the tropes of an entire medium, butalso the risk that all the intermediaries required to create thefinished product will ruin it all with some fatal blend ofincomprehension, or incompetence.

One of the great contradictions of the way we make television inthe United States is that writers are given managerial controlover the entire enterprise... but writers are very often badcommunicators outside the page. Also, talking to people non-stop,all day, with great specificity about a project this size ishard, and tiring.

Do not leave a meeting without letting everyone there know what they are expected to do/deliver next

Bottom line: the creativity of your staff isn't for coming upwith your core ideas for you, it's for making your core ideasbigger and better once you've come up with them. To say "I'llknow it when I see it" is to abdicate the hard work of creationwhile hoarding the authority to declare what is or isn't good.