Gina Fattore's debut novel, 'The Spinster Diaries,' follows a Los Angeles television writer. The book is fiction, but Fattore drew parts of the plot from her own life as a writer on Dawson's Creek, Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, and Masters of Sex.
is the first show of my TV writing career where I also served as showrunner, i.e., the boss. Before that, I’d always been “on staff,” as we say in the biz, and the great thing about being “on staff” is that it keeps you humble. Do you have a supercool, truly amazing job? Yes, you do. You’re a writer on a TV show, for heaven’s sake. You make your living doing something you love. Free food is rampant. Occasionally you get to talk to celebrities.
No, at the “TV writer on staff” level, you’re mostly just doing a lot of writing, rewriting, and/or talking about writing. And we all know how glamorous writing is, right? We’ve all done a book report at some point in our lives.
characters crammed into Miss Patty’s, it’s taking all night to get the footage we need, but I co-wrote “Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?” with fellow staffer Gayle Abrams, so I want to prove to the crew that I can make it all the way to wrap. As my eyelids begin to close, I hear something that perks me up immeasurably, a sound I will never forget…Like most O.G. TV writers, I am a person who grew up watching way too much TV, and in this moment, it is like I am actuallywith television history.
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