 For SpongeBob SquarePants a team of five outline and premise writers creates the initial storylines . Writer Luke Brookshier said , " SpongeBob is written differently than many television shows " . Writing for an episode of the series starts with a two @-@ page outline . A storyboard director then takes the outline and develops it into a full episode — jokes and dialogue are added during this stage . Another writer for the series , Merriwether Williams , described in an interview that she and Mr. Lawrence would write a draft for an episode in an afternoon and be done at 4 o 'clock . 
