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TV Series Writers craft the episodic narratives that define India's OTT era — writing individual episodes, breaking story in writer's rooms, and building the long-form character arcs that sustain a show across 8-25 episodes. In India the role spans Hindi GEC (general entertainment channels like Star Plus, Colors, Sony) where daily soap writers produce 5 episodes per week under industrial conditions, and the OTT sector — Netflix India, Amazon Prime Video, SonyLIV, Disney+ Hotstar, ZEE5, JioCinema — where 6-10 episode limited series demand literary depth, consistent character logic, and showrunner-adjacent discipline. The entry path divides sharply: GEC writers join as dialogue writers or script assistants at production houses (Balaji Telefilms, Optimystix, Contiloe, 4 Lions Films) churning out daily content; OTT writers attach to a showrunner's room (Mirzapur, Panchayat, Scam 1992 all had structured rooms). The Film Writers Association (FWA) registers scripts, arbitrates credits, and negotiates minimum fees. Internationally, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) governs US scripted TV — the room model pioneered by US network drama is the template the Indian OTT sector is adopting. The career ceiling is showrunner: the writer who controls the creative vision, runs the room, and takes final-draft authority across all episodes — the equivalent of a novelist-director hybrid.