It’s unsolicited tv writer advice season and something I can’t stop thinking about rn is how so many of us who have been lucky enough to make a living writing tv like to pretend it’s a merit based system because it validates us being a part of that system.

It is obviously not a merit based system - that’s why we all know like 100 people within it who continue to fail upward. We can’t fault people for looking at a system that has failed them and others for wanting to find a different path forward.

And the notion of “you’re not a good writer until you’ve taken the exact same path that I have” sucks because this is a “need experience to get experience” kind of business and wow that makes it hard to push through.

I hope tweeting this will allow my brain to stop thinking about 24/7 so I can go back to makin jokes about shit n piss https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💖" title="Sparkling heart" aria-label="Emoji: Sparkling heart">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💖" title="Sparkling heart" aria-label="Emoji: Sparkling heart">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💖" title="Sparkling heart" aria-label="Emoji: Sparkling heart">