#writer breakdown

[oceanera12]

Dude, if I wasn’t broke I would literally offer to pay real money for you to write the other side of Tango’s chapter. I know you said you didn’t want to go down the rabbit hole of writing extra parts and considering the length and detail you put into every chapter I totally get it, but man, that rescue mission would be so cool to read. I’m glad we at least have an idea of what happened though because even just imagining the whole operation based on that outline is so much fun.

Also, what is Zedaph doing in the Hunter arc in your handwritten outline? 👀 I am very curious about what you’re gonna do with the sheep man

Btw, speaking of ‘director’s cuts’, do you have any comments on Xb’s chapter? I think I’ve said this before but his and Tango’s together are my favorite bit of this fic so far. Just, the complete contrast between the two and how Xb’s chapter helps to highlight everything that the people in Tango’s situation have lost, how the hunters steal more than just their freedom (as if that was little thing), while at the same time diving into and exploring the joys of the diversity that inhabits this universe. Absolute masterpieces, both chapters.

~ @nightmare761

(Im shadowbanned so i cant go off anon)

Well, that stinks.

If I do any "one-off" chapters with Built Family it will be after the main story is actually done to preserve no only my motivation, but my sanity. So we shall just have to see what happens.

Don't worry about the sheep man. He's fine. No really. Don't worry about him. Don't even think about him. He's fine. He's doing fine. Nothing is wrong with him and you do not need to worry about him doing anything of any sort. He is 100% fine and his chapter is not at all one I am looking forward to writing because I want to see what all of your reactions are. That is not the case at all. Don't worry about him. Don't think, don't even ask about him. Zed's fine, he's fine, he's fINE--

ON TO THE CHAPTER ANALYSIS. To anyone who wants to reread it:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

There you go. Everyone else, either scroll by or read on!

xB's chapter is one of my favorites because of all the (MatPat voice) LORE!!!

There is so much of it that if I tried to explain it all we would be here all day so we aren't going to do that. But, I knew that I wanted to show how just because they are all "players" there is culture carried from your origin, your server, whatever. The best way to explore is to try and hit as many as I possibly could.

xB's introductions was longer than I planned, but that was my own fault. I wanted to shove as much Guardian culture into only a few pages and it was impossible. So what was supposed to be "here is a peek into Guardian culture" turned into what could have been a chapter on it's own (a common pattern with this fic and I will not apologize for that).

What xB's original chapter was supposed to mainly consist of was all of his trips and what he learned from everyone. That ended up being condensed into a form of "chat" in his journal entries and honestly? I like it. It leaves room for me to explore future cultures (cough cough *Impusle!* cough cough). We do not get to see all of xB's trips, friends, and visits to various places.

I knew that I wanted to connect Cor to xB somehow. Making him the last "World Walker" since xB was unplanned, but really worked out. Originally, I did want to have Cor and xB talk directly, but I had to cut it because of LENGTH. Seriously, it is annoying how much I want to put in and CAN'T. (Maybe in the future after Built Family is done we'll do scene requests and I'll put them in a collection or something)

Case in point: xB's artist career. As an art major I cannot tell you how much I wanted to dive into all the different mediums, styles, and methods I could see xB doing-- but we'll just have to wait until Beef's chapter, lol.

We get to meet Keralis' wife and kids, however brief. I don't know why, but I really like them as these vague, unseen people for the most part. Not sure why.

xB is suspicious of Keralis and company despite their years of friendship. Beef is suspicious of xB despite their years of friendship. Both of them are not technically "bad" in their assumptions, as they both had their reasons to doubt. Obviously, those assumptions were not correct.

I totally forgot to give Keralis a charm in this chapter but I'm too lazy to care about going back to fix it. Now for everyone else's charms, they are 100% related to backstories or hinting at something in the future. As such, I can't really break them down and their meanings until later. But if y'all want to speculate, be my guest.

xB joining the Hermits because of his culture's leftover charms was kind of thrown together, but I like it. xB is one of the few Hermits where he's guided by his feelings and I kind of love him for it. We have a lot of Hermits who are logical in their actions.

I think that's all I got on xB's chapter but if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask and I'll answer in the notes.

[manic-misfit]

I’m convinced professional authors either have no lives, are severely sleep deprived and/or a fucking vampire because I can’t write enough and live a balanced life where I make enough money to live and have good health. It’s one or the other, both just ISN’T happening asdfghjjlkl

[babywonderlandwerewolf]

Adventure Time writer breakdown

Another long runner writer breakdown in Adventure Time. Doing the 4 or more episodes rule here.

Season 1: Pendleton Ward, Adam Muto, Merriwether Williams (also story editor), Tim McKeon, Elizabeth Ito, Bert Youn, Sean Jimenez, Patrick McHale, Luther McLaurin, Kent Osborne, Niki Yang, Cole Sanchez, Tom Herpich, and Ako Castuera

Season 2: Tim McKeon and Sean Jimenez leave for Fish Hooks, Luther McLaurin leaves for The Looney Tunes Show, Niki Yang stops writing and leaves for Fish Hooks (but still remains doing voicework on the show), Steve Little is promoted to writer, Elizabeth Ito leaves for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (but returned in season 5 as a supervising director), and newcomers are Rebecca Sugar, Mark Banker, Somvilay Xayaphone, Jesse Moynihan, and Thurop van Orman. Merriwether Williams also leaves toward the end of the season for My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and Mark Banker takes over as story editor toward the end of the season

Season 3: Thurop van Orman leaves and Steve Little stops writing (but remains as a VA).

Season 4: Mark Banker leaves for Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated and Steve Wolfhard and Skyler Page join. Kent Osborne is also promoted to head writer with Banker's departure.

Season 5A: Tim McKeon briefly returns for one episode before leaving for good, Steve Little also briefly writes for one more episode, Bert Youn leaves for Star vs the Forces of Evil, and Graham Falk and Luke Pearson join

Season 5B: Rebecca Sugar leaves for Steven Universe, Skyler Page leaves for Clarence, Patrick McHale leaves for Over the Garden Wall, Luke Pearson joins, and Andy Ristaino, Seo Jung Kim, and Jack Pendarvis join. Pen Ward steps down as showrunner with Adam Muto taking over.

Season 6: Bert Youn returns for only one episode, Sam Alden and Emily Partridge join

Production Season 7 (Bonnie & Neddy-Reboot): Cole Sanchez leaves for Long Live the Royals, Andy Ristaino stops writing but still stayed on the storyboarding side only, Luke Person returns, Ashly Burch, Aleks Sennwald, Hanna K. Nyström, and Polly Guo join

Production Season 8 (Two Swords-Three Buckets): Ako Castuera stops writing but stays on storyboarding until leaving for good at the end of the season, Emily Patridge leaves early in the season, Luke Pearson leaves for Hilda, Julia Pott joins, and Jack Pendarvis is promoted to story editor for the remainder of the series.

Production Season 9 (The Wild Hunt-Come Along With Me): Jesse Moynihan leaves, Polly Guo leaves for She-Ra.

Those left in the final season:

Kent Osborne and Tom Herpich since season 1, Somvilay Xayaphone since season 2, Steve Wolfhard since season 4, Graham Falk since season 5A, Jack Pendarvis and Seo Jung Kim since season 5B, Sam Alden since season 6, Ashly Burch, Aleks Sennwald, and Hanna K Nystrom since season 7, and Julia Pott since season 8

[babywonderlandwerewolf]

The Loud House writer breakdown

As a Nickelodeon long runner, it's nice to see how Loud House's writing team evolved over time. Only including ones who did 4 or more episodes.

Season 1: Karla Sakas Shropshire, Alec Schwimmer, Michael Rubiner, Bob Mittenthal, Kevin Sullivan, Sammie Crowley & Whittney Wetta, and Sheela Shrinivas as the original writing team with Rubiner also being story editor

Season 2: Sheela Shrinivas leaves for Pinkie Malinky, and Eric Acosta and Darin McGowan join

Season 3 (aka the reason Savino was fired): Alec Schwimmer leaves for unknown reasons, Michael Rubiner gets promoted to showrunner 21 episodes in the season (causing him to step down from writing), Darin McGowan stops writing and stays as storyboard artist (later director in seasons 4-5), Eric Acosta leaves for Glitch Techs, Sheela Shrinivas returns, and Jeff Sayers joins, Karla Sakas Shropshire takes over as story editor after Rubiner becomes showrunner.

Season 4: Bob Mittenthal leaves for Welcome to the Wayne and It's Pony, and Katie Mattila, Andrew Brooks, and Byron Dockins join. Whittney Wetta becomes co-story editor for the final two episodes.

Season 5: Sammie Crowley leaves for The Ghost & Molly McGee, Karla Sakas Shropshire leaves for a hiatus and then went to Primos, Sheela Shrinivas leaves for Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, Danny Warren joins, and Alec Schwimmer returns. Whittney Wetta and Kevin Sullivan become the new story editors as a duo.

Season 6: Katie Mattila leaves for Bugs Bunny Builders, Danny Warren leaves for The Neighborhood, Caitlin Fein and Adeline Colangelo join

Season 7: Michelle Hantman joins and Alec Schwimmer leaves for Fairly OddParents A New Wish, Whittney Wetta is sole story editor now.

Seasons 8/9 (produced as one season) and 10/11 (also produced as one season): Writers so far are Kevin Sullivan, Whittney Wetta, Jeff Sayers, Andrew Brooks, Byron Dockins, Adeline Colangelo, and Michelle Hantman, with Caitlin Fein leaving to be a copy writer.

[babywonderlandwerewolf]

SpongeBob writer breakdown up to season 15

As a big one, here's a breakdown on the writers on each SpongeBob season. Only including those with 4 or more writing credits.

Season 1: Tim Hill, Peter Burns (also story editor for the first 13 episodes), Mr. Lawrence, Paul Tibbitt, Ennio Torresan, Jr., Erik Wiese, Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer, Mark O’Hare, Steve Fonti, Chris Mitchell, Jay Lender, Chuck Klein, Merriwether Williams (took over as story editor starting in episode 14), Vincent Waller, and David Fain

Season 2: Tim Hill leaves for directing various movies like Max Keeble's Big Move, Peter Burns leaves to move back to Chicago, Ennio Torresan Jr demoted to storyboard artist before leaving after this season for Teacher's Pet, Erik Wiese demoted to storyboard artist, Sherm Cohen demoted to storyboard supervisor until leaving during season 4 for My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Steve Fonti leaves for Osmosis Jones (returned only on the storyboard side briefly in season 12), Chris Mitchell leaves for The Powerpuff Girls, Chuck Klein leaves for Teacher's Pet, Vincent Waller leaves for Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Walt Dohrn joins, and CH Greenblatt and William Reiss promoted to writers

Season 3: Mr. Lawrence stops writing (but remains in voice acting for the show), William Reiss demoted back to storyboard artist (left during season 4 for Billy & Mandy), David Fain leaves for the Looney Tunes webtoons, and Sam Henderson, Kent Osborne, and Kaz join

Season 4 (aka when Hillenburg left and Tibbitt took over as showrunner): Merriwether Williams, Mark O'Hare, Sam Henderson, and Kaz leave for Camp Lazlo, Jay Lender leaves to write for various video games before working on Phineas & Ferb, Walt Dohrn leaves for DreamWorks Animation, Tim Hill (also getting promoted to co-story editor this season), Vincent Waller, and Chris Mitchell return, Erik Wiese is promoted back to writer, Zeus Cervas promoted to writer, Steven Banks (who was co-story editor with Hill this season), Mike Bell, Luke Brookshier, Tom King, Casey Alexander, Dani Michaeli, Richard Pursel, Eric Shaw, Nate Cash, and Tuck Tucker join, and by the end of the season, CH Greenblatt and Aaron Springer leave for Billy & Mandy and Kent Osborne leaves for Camp Lazlo

Season 5: Tim Hill leaves after Friend or Foe for continuing to direct movies like Garfield A Tale of Two Kitties and Alvin and the Chipmunks, Vincent Waller stops writing but continues directing episodes, Mike Bell leaves for Class of 3000, Kyle McCulloch leaves for South Park, Erik Wiese leaves for The Mighty B, Aaron Springer returns halfway through the season, and Chris Mitchell leaves after Night Light for being a story artist at Sony Pictures Animation. Steven Banks also become sole story editor this season.

Season 6: Mr. Lawrence returns to writing again, Tuck Tucker switches to storyboard director rather than a writer, and Derek Iversen and Sean Charmatz join

Season 7: Tom King leaves for Fanboy & Chum Chum and Eric Shaw leaves for My Friends Tigger & Pooh

Season 8: Vincent Waller returns to writing once more and Marc Ceccarelli and Andrew Goodman join

Season 9A: Paul Tibbitt stops writing and leaves the show after season 9B, Blake Lemons joins, Aaron Springer leaves for Gravity Falls, Vincent Waller no longer writers and stays on the directing side, Steven Banks leaves for Thomas Edison Secret Lab, Dani Michaeli leaves for The Aquabats Super Show, Richard Pursel leaves for Ben 10 Omniverse, Nate Cash leaves for Adventure Time, and Sean Charmatz leaves to be a story artist at DreamWorks Animation

Season 9B: Casey Alexander and Luke Brookshier leave for Uncle Grandpa, Zeus Carvas leaves for Harvey Beaks, Marc Ceccarelli stops writing, Blake Lemons leaves for Sanjay & Craig, Jack Pendarvis, Josh Androsky & Daniel Dominguez, Clare O'Kane, and Solomon Georgio join, and Kaz and Kyle McCulloch (also now story editor) rejoin. Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli take over as showrunners

Season 10: Ben Gruber joins, Richard Pursel briefly returns before leaving again for Mighty Magiswords, Dani Michaeli returns briefly before leaving for good for Little Big Awesome, Kyle McCulloch leaves for Lady Dynamite, Solomon Georgio leaves for Adam Ruins Everything, Jack Pendarvis leaves to go back to Adventure Time, Claire O'Kane leaves for Party Legnds, Josh Androsky & Daniel Dominguez leave for DInglesworth, and Mr. Lawrence becomes the new story editor from this point onward.

Season 11: Luke Brookshier and Zeus Cervas return

Season 12: Zeus Cervas leaves again for Victor and Valentino

Season 13: Danny Giovanni joins, Richard Pursel returns one more time before leaving,

Season 14/15 (produced as one season): Mike Bell returns

Current set of writers now: Mr. Lawrence, Kaz, Andrew Goodman,, Luke Brookshier, Ben Gruber, Mike Bell, and Danny Giovanni

[babywonderlandwerewolf]

MLP Friendship is Magic writer breakdown

After conversations with @new-employeeamillion, I thought it'd be cool to do posts on breaking down the writing team of each season of a long runner show to see how much if affected the quality.

Starting with MLP Friendship is Magic:

Season 1: Meghan McCarthy, Amy Keating Rogers, MA Larson, Cindy Morrow, Dave Polsky, and Charlotte Fullerton as the original writing staff + Rob Renzetti as story editor

Season 2: Dave Polsky leaves for Pair of Kings, Merriwether Williams joins, and Charlotte Fullerton left at the end of the season due to dealing with her husband Dwayne McDuffie passing away and then working on Ben 10 Omniverse

Season 3: Amy Keating Rogers leaves for Care Bears Welcome to Care-a-Lot, Rob Renzetti leaves for Gravity Falls (McCarthy took over as story editor), Dave Polsky returns, and Corey Powell joins

Season 4: MA Larson leaves to write his first Pennyroyal Academy novel (but was still writing on Littlest Pet Shop at this time), Cindy Morrow leaves for Mickey Mouse 2013, Amy Keating Rogers and Charlotte Fullerton return, and Josh Haber, Ed Valentine, Natasha Levinger, and Scott Sonneborn join

Season 5: Charlotte Fullerton leaves for Thunderbirds Are Go (she got in freelance jobs for a few years until getting a regular gig again in 2020), Merriwether Williams leaves for Pig Goat Banana Cricket, Corey Powell leaves for Lalaloopsy Kitchen, Ed Valentine leaves to be on Doc McStuffins exclusively, MA Larson (who briefly became story editor in the first half of the season before McCarthy got the job back in the second half) and Cindy Morrow return, Joanna Lewis & Kristine Songco, Nick Confalone, and Gillian M Berrow join

Season 6: Amy Keating Rogers leaves for Disney's Star Darlings, MA Larson leaves to write the sequels to Pennyroyal Academy novels, Cindy Morrow leaves for Rolling with the Ronks, Natasha Levinger leaves for writing books like Animal Jam Animal Handbook, Scott Sonneborn leaves for Pickle & Peanut, Gillian M Berrow was likely writing an MLP book at the time, Josh Haber became story editor, Ed Valentine returns, and Michael & Wil Fox, Dave Rapp, Michael Vogel, and Kevin Burke & Chris "Doc" Wyatt join

Season 7: Meghan McCarthy stopped writing due to being promoted to Head of Story at Hasbro and writing the 2017 movie, Dave Polsky leaves for Hanazuki, Ed Valentine leaves for Goldie & Bear, Dave Rapp leaves (unknown what he was doing during season 7), Kevin Burke & Chris "Doc" Wyatt leave for Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, Michael Vogel leaves for co-writing the 2017 movie, Lewis & Songco became story editors for most of the season until Haber returned at the very end, Gillian M Berrow returns, and Josh Hamilton and Nicole Dubuc join

Season 8: Joanna Lewis & Kristine Songco leave for Skylanders Academy, Nicole Dubuc becomes co-story editor with Haber, Michael Vogel, Kevin Burke & Chris "Doc" Wyatt, and Dave Rapp return

Season 9: Kevin Burke & Chris "Doc" Wyatt leave for Super Dinosaur, Josh Hamilton leaves for Fast & Furious Spy Racers, Haber becomes sole story editor again halfway through the season, and Ed Valentine and Joanna Lewis & Kristine Songco return

[chaesdiary]

really, writing two stories at the same time while having 50 new story ideas makes me crave death alr, but rn I just wanna finish editing Royal and finish writing dont leave me 

[tinykumi]

Tfw you put your soul into something and no one wants to read it vs when you half-ass something because you don’t even like it anymore and people trip over themselves to grab the new chapter