They're not scripted, they haven't had a script writer, you know, form a perfect sentence that has a beginning, middle, and end.

他们没有剧本，他们没有剧本作家，你知道，形成一个有开头、中间和结尾完美句子。

These are authors who write plays for the theater.

些是为剧院写剧本作家。

Sleepless in Seattle was a script that had been hopping around from writer to writer with no success.

《西雅图夜未》剧本一直在作家之间跳来跳去，但没有成功。

Script doctors are writers who are hired to improve a script by making it clearer or funnier after a screen writer has written it.

剧本医生是在编剧写完剧本后受雇改进剧本作家，使剧本变得更清晰或更有趣。

It is unusual for a playwright like Mamet to be as successful writing plays as in writing movies, but Mamet has definitely accomplished that feat.

像马梅特剧作家写剧本和写电影一成功是不寻常，但马梅特确实完成了一壮举。

A script writer will do that or maybe a screen writer, but I think screenwriters usually adapt novels into scripts for movies or TV shows, not for plays.

剧本作家或者编剧可能会做，但我认为编剧通常将小说改编成电影或电视剧剧本，而不是戏剧。

And so I got really frustrated with that, because the way playwrights make a living on playwriting is not just on the first play, but on that play being produced again and again.

所以我对此感到非常沮丧，因为剧作家靠剧本创作谋生方式不仅在于第一部戏剧，还在于一次又一次地制作该戏剧。