WWE NXT author Colby Applegate has pulled back the curtain on what the creative team’s week actually looks like.
In a recent Full Sail University feature, Applegate broke down the schedule from Wednesday’s creative sessions during Tuesday’s live filming.
He also noted that ego has no place in TV writing, explaining that scripts will all the time get modified and that one has to just accept it as a part of working on a collaborative show. Applegate wrote,
“(The writers) are available in on Wednesday and that’s our primary creative day where we just undergo all our stories and begin putting the script together for the next week. We often spend eight to nine hours doing that. Then we are available in on Thursday, form of do the identical thing, finish the script, start taking a look at future stories, and begin planning for the following week. So after we’re going to film certain things, or if we want props, we’ve got to let the props team know to order things for us, after which we write our segments and stuff on Fridays, after which Monday we are available in and it’s form of our pre-production day to go over the script yet one more time. It’s like a table read. Then we be certain we record the whole lot, make any last-minute changes, after which Tuesday is show day where we just spend all day filming our backstage segments. Then the show goes live at 8 PM Eastern on the CW, and we do all of it another time the following week.”
“Living with the concept your writing will get modified (is very important). It’s a team effort. You will have a vision for it, but at the tip of the day, you’ve to work with the opposite writers… and the wrestlers will give you different lines to say, various things to do. So it’s an excellent collaborative process, and you possibly can’t be egotistical about it. (To do this sort of writing), you’ve to be willing to place within the work and make sacrifices, and I feel like that’s something that gets said loads, but I’ve also seen individuals who say they need it, but don’t put within the work to truly do it… You simply should take it seriously.”