This One is Mine: a Novel
“What was your path to becoming a writer?
My father created the sixties TV series Batman and went on to write a bunch of movies. When you’re a kid, and your dad’s job consists of walking around the house in socks all day, then having barbecues with Archie Bunker, Major Anthony Nelson, and Sebastian Howell III, you decide, I want that job.I was an English major at Barnard. I could have happily spent my life as an English major—reading books, writing papers, maybe teaching, eventually writing a no...vel—but I wrote a spec screenplay that sold to Fox (and never got made). It was the late eighties, when basically anyone could get a development deal. The stuff I wrote was terrible. I was too young.Around that time, I met Darren Star, and he gave me my first TV job, on Beverly Hills, 90210. That led to about fifteen years of TV writing. I was good enough at it, but I secretly knew it was too hard. Not old-fashioned-hard-work hard, but sweaty-something’s-wrong-here hard. For the life of me, I couldn’t come up with sitcomy joke-jokes, which mainly consist of a person walking into a friend’s house without knocking, insulting them, then helping himself to a bottle of water from the fridge.MoreLess
My father created the sixties TV series Batman and went on to write a bunch of movies. When you’re a kid, and your dad’s job consists of walking around the house in socks all day, then having barbecues with Archie Bunker, Major Anthony Nelson, and Sebastian Howell III, you decide, I want that job.I was an English major at Barnard. I could have happily spent my life as an English major—reading books, writing papers, maybe teaching, eventually writing a no...vel—but I wrote a spec screenplay that sold to Fox (and never got made). It was the late eighties, when basically anyone could get a development deal. The stuff I wrote was terrible. I was too young.Around that time, I met Darren Star, and he gave me my first TV job, on Beverly Hills, 90210. That led to about fifteen years of TV writing. I was good enough at it, but I secretly knew it was too hard. Not old-fashioned-hard-work hard, but sweaty-something’s-wrong-here hard. For the life of me, I couldn’t come up with sitcomy joke-jokes, which mainly consist of a person walking into a friend’s house without knocking, insulting them, then helping himself to a bottle of water from the fridge.MoreLess
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