Writer Steven Moffat had intended to write a two-parter earlier in the series, but was too busy writing and executive producing Jekyll. Believing he had "messed everything up", Moffat offered to "throw [himself] onto the grenade of the unpopular episode", referring to the Doctor-lite concept. In a 2008 interview, he admitted that he had only just started realising that Blink was in fact "a really great episode". As of June 2008, it remained the quickest piece of writing Moffat had ever done because of its late submission, having gone straight from the second draft with no notes to the script and tone meetings before going into production ten days later. The scriptwriting process took such little time to produce that Moffat claimed that Blink was such a "tiniest sliver" of his writing caree