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Josh Friedman’s tips for your new writers’ room

With upfronts over, and staffing concluded, a lot of TV writers are now joining their new writers’ room. Those first few days are much like landing in a new school, albeit with even more unsaid rules.

Fortunately for us, Josh Friedman (from the great Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) decided to tweet yesterday morning some advice.

Here are the dozen tweets for posterity (plus bonus Survivor reference):















Write on.

(If you’re curious, the featured picture above is from the Arrested Development Season 4 writers’ room.)

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