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A script writer's job varies, depending on who's paying the writer. When you're hired...

  • ...as a scriptwriter for a television series, you work with other writers in a 'writer's room', and create episodes as a team. Depending on the type of series, you may have a special expertise or assignment.
  • ...for a film set, you will be concerned with re-writes. Perhaps there's not enough money to produce a scene as written, so you'll be asked to re-write the scene with different production values, while maintaining the flow of the story and moving the plot along.
  • ...to 'doctor' a script, you are given particular directions by whomever owns the script, and are required to re-write the script to those specifics.

However or where ever you're hired as a script writer, you must bring with you certain skills, including an ability to write using the standard tools in use by the production. You must also be able to observe the situation from a high level -- a total perspective -- and work at a very specific, low level of detail.

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