I was late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school because I didn't. I learned early on, althought, that it's essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you're starting out . IF your biodata is sitting at he bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed. especially if the comettion is fierce.
Once my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Enverybody said the same thing-they disliked writing for the minor characters because they thought that writing for them wouldn't help them to get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor character because that's what was needed and we needed to set ourselves apart.
In the first script, Jerry and I wrote a school-girl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer, just another comedy-writing team.
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