You Need to Celebrate Your Own Victories

"You can make less money as a writer than you made being the assistant to the showrunner," she says. "I personally would not volunteer what to do with the characters in the second episode or the second series unless you're asked, right? Yes, I agree." Her advice for new writers: Keep speccing and keep doing things to keep your writing career going. For next one, for a TV staffing meeting, be prepared to answer the question,What should episode two be? Check Lori asked me that question and I just started laughing at myself because I couldn't believe I hadn't thought about it.