Welcome to the Stacks. My name is Tracy Thomas and I am your host here. This is a podcast all about books.

This week I am joined by my guest Chris Madox.

Chris is a TV writer and actor and we discuss a whole lot about how reading is part of his creative process

and how even though he would like to read for pleasure he's almost always reading for work.

We also discuss the importance of seeing oneself reflected back in the books that we read.

And lastly, as a reminder, everything we talk about this week on the show will be in the

show notes so you don't have to write anything down. Okay, let's do it.

Here I am talking with my Thomas and I am joined today

by a television writer and dear friend of mine Chris Maddox.

Hello hello hello, hello.

Thanks for having me.

We're so excited that you're here.

We're just going to jump right in.

So Chris writes a bunch.

He writes for television.

So I'm going to be honest, before I kind of moved to LA and started understanding how TV and film and everything worked,

I didn't realize that there were rooms full of people who were doing the writing for all my favorite

shows. So can you kind of explain what it means or what it is that you do as a television writer?

Yeah, it is a curious thing. I mean growing up you just imagine oh there's one person

writing all of these episodes of television and it wasn't until I landed in Los Angeles that I learned there's this whole group of people that help create the world that you immerse yourself into on a weekly basis and generally there is a person at the helm called a showrunner and he or she is in charge of he's sort of the go between the studio the the writers room production, and then he or she hires a group of people

ranging from five to maybe ten people or more to craft the world to populate the world of each of each

episode of the of the series and we sit in a room and we break stories, which means we try to figure out what's going to happen in each episode.

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