I’m trying to prep episode 5 with the director, while down the hill, scenes from episode 3 that I feel like I’m still finding are being filmed. I’m shoving a salad into my face between …
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Body apology
We have officially started SET LIFE with The Five Star Weekend. It’s my first time on set in six years, first time as a Showrunner, and I am officially confronting my innate desire to apology …
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A room of one’s own
I RAN MY FIRST WRITER’S ROOM! I can’t believe it began, and I survived, and that it’s done. Showrunning is basically like suddenly becoming a CEO after spending many years making little bracelets in your …
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again I dream of bacon
If I wrote my dreams into an episode I would get a note that they’re too on the nose, they live on my nose as I sleep. I dream, again, of bacon, always bacon. I’m …
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Mother
For the first time in my twelve years of TV writing, I am RUNNING A SHOW, an adaptation of a beautiful book about female friendship and grief and gift bags and cheese. I feel at …
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stay grounded, stay humble, stay insecure
Typically I spend a good amount of time pitching on a project, convincing the producers that I’m the person for the job, that I’ll write the best version of the story. During this time I …
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I baked
I had my first IN PERSON PITCH in four years today, so naturally I spent all of the time I should have spent going over my document baking things from the book (Sorghum Molasses cookies …
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how to get into hollyweird
I get asked a lot how I got to where I am in my career, ie, Bekah, how does one get into Hollyweird, because it feels like all doors are not just shut, but guarded …
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Give me a break
I feel guilty admitting this feeling given all we went through to have our dear children, but I also imagine it’s a very human feeling, so here is my very human feeling: as much as …
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industry professional
I’m doing a short writer’s room / think tank for my friend’s new show right now, and it hurts to both sit and stand, so here I am, in all of my co-exec producer glory, …