Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

It's just me and Jeff this week, as Meg is having a very exciting travel adventure that we are

excited to hear about when she gets back. Today we're thrilled to be

joined by comedy writer Joey Slaman. So Joey got her start as a PA on a late night talk show if she

eventually as she put it conned her way into a writer's room as a writer's assistant

and from there she was able to move up to a writer position and has spent the past 13 years

writing on shows like Arrested Development, those Who Can't, and Miss Fitz and Monsters.

Joey was the showrunner for two seasons of I'm Sorry, starring Andrea Savage, which aired on True TV,

as well as showrunning the writer's Room for what would have been season three,

thanks COVID. Joey is reuniting with Savage as a co-writer on her planned directorial debut,

a feature film for Sony.

Welcome to the show, Joey. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited.

Yay and Joey and I and Jeff and Meg all know each other from Sinistory.

So I think that's the only time we see each other in person like once a year out in the woods.

Yeah, except a couple of times I feel like I did I see you on the line a couple times marching around

Disney or something like maybe. So before we get into our chat with you, we're going to do what we do called

Adventures and Screenwriting, where we talk about our week, and I'm going to start.

And my week was a bit of a blur. I finally sat down and wrote a synopsis for a feature that I've been

needing to do. And I finished it last night and I hit send to the producer and I realized that I felt more of a sense of relief than in a sense of an accomplishment and I read somewhere that that is how ADHD people process things and I want to feel more of a sense of accomplishment so I've been working on that like I did this thing

so yay and I like it and I feel good about it and then of course I got the call this morning

Hey this is good. I have some thoughts and then right after that a minute later

Hey do you have time to talk and I was like oh so now I filled in all these gaps I've created a story about what it's going to be and how I'm like dreading it I'm like why he said it was this is good but like I like it so why am I already giving away my power I don't know it's just

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