Once we land on something we like – and this is a fairly research-intensive show – the staff starts doing research. You know, you’ve got to go through 100 bad ideas before you get to one that might have potential. We all get in a room, and we pitch out ideas for several days.
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There are eight writers on the writing staff, plus two writer’s assistants, plus me. But you do have a writing staff on The Newsroom. You’re known for writing all the episodes of your shows yourself. I like writing about workplace families and I like writing romantically. Is the world of The Newsroom what you would like the world to be like, with its forthright and loyal colleagues collaborating on a common endeavor? I don’t have an overpowering fast ball, so I have to mix up my pitches. But, you know, like a baseball pitcher who doesn’t have an overpowering fast ball – who has to get you out by mixing up his pitches, and throwing a curve ball here and a slider there, a change-up there, and you don’t know what’s coming next – that’s sort of how I am as a writer. I’m going too far to one side, it’s too silly, it’s going to be too something-or-other. When I’m writing well, that’s what I’m able to do, and when I’m not writing well, I’m not able to do that. I wouldn’t say that it comes naturally to me but it feels natural. If you can do that, you’re doing yourself a favor. I’ve always liked telling a serious story funny. Does that come naturally, or do you need to think, “Will McAvoy is getting too serious right now, I need to lighten him up a bit?” Your dialogue is drenched with humor and supreme seriousness, woven together. Throw in chatter about your personal life, drug addiction and recovery as well.įinally, join the conversation yourself by chatting with The Writer about The Newsroom and your writing life. Be endlessly compared to yourself online, with fan lists of Sorkinisms and parodies in the Sorkinverse. With every keystroke, stamp your rhythmic dialogue with serio-comic sincerity, spiked with socio-political themes and laced with literary allusions – all delivered at head-spinning speed by characters like The Newsroom’s anchorman Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his executive producer and sometime lady-love MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer).
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Relive the genesis of TV itself with your 2007 Broadway play, The Farnsworth Invention.Ĭreate a new language called Sorkinese.
Send up the media with your Humanitas Prize-winning series, Sports Night (1998-2000), about a fictional cable sports network, and your Saturday Night Live-styled Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006-2007). Adapt your own Broadway play, A Few Good Men, into the Oscar-nominated 1992 film of the same name. Take viewers inside a fictional, fiercely idealistic White House with your Emmy-winning episodes of The West Wing (1999-2006).
Depict the birth of Facebook with your Academy Award-winning screenplay for The Social Network (2010). Stack up those statuettes and awards nominations, too. Stretch the boundaries of small-screen storytelling with the adrenalin-amped HBO dramedy The Newsroom, which you created, write and executive-produce.
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Here’s how to be Aaron Sorkin, triple-threat super-scribe for movies, stage and TV:
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