10 WWE Creative Secrets The Writers DON’T Want You To Know
5. They Also Appease Vince In Other Ways
So you've probably got the idea at this point.
A writer sits in the room and tosses ideas around with their colleagues. These ideas aren't great, many don't make it on to the shows, and they are pitched almost entirely because they think Tripe H or Vince McMahon will like them. Then, they wait. They wait for Vince McMahon to provide his feedback, praying to God, even if they aren't believers, that he's in a good mood and has eaten his din-dins.
Or, if it's really Triple H, they hope that they've written enough backstage segments in which a character lurks in the background of a scene knowing that he thinks it's really, really clever.
The ideas are approved or not approved, and if they don't get verbally abused, it is a good day. Their work is done. That's the basic, cynical and reductive take on the day in the life of a WWE creative writer - but that's not all.
According to former writer Dr. Ranjan Chhibber, sometimes the writer's role was "to listen to McMahon deliver these long-winded, passionate, growling pro wrestling interviews against whoever in the company was annoying him at the time". Chhibber revealed that this process could take an hour.
As also reported in 'Ring Of Hell', another unnamed former writer corroborated this strange and unproductive behaviour. "[Vince would] sit in creative meetings and just stare at the wall forever, and then suddenly wake up and go off on a tirade about some irrelevant wrestler for no reason, and then go back into hibernation."
Bear in mind, 'Ring Of Hell' was first published in 2008. Vince became even more erratic in the years since.