Hey everyone, just a reminder that if you have not listened to part two of our writer's assistant episode, go back and listen to that first because it leads right into this episode with Anthony Macella. We hope you enjoy it.

Thank you so much to Maggie, Jonathan and Lauren for joining. We now, as I mentioned at the top, have kind of a different kind of writer's assistant.

And we're really excited to dive into it. He will get more into detail

as to what it means. But Anthony Macella is a screenwriter who writes both TV and film. And for the

last two years, he's been working as a writer's assistant at HBO under award-winning writer and

producer Rodney Barnes, who's known for such shows as everybody hates Chris, my wife and kids,

HBO's winning time, the boondocks, and more. Outside of his assistant work,

Anthony's also been hired to write multiple features and currently has multiple of his own projects

at various stages of development. Anthony, thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me.

This is awesome. All right, welcome to the show, Anthony. It's awesome to have you.

So we were talking before we went out of air about all the

different kinds of writers assistants there are and that I theorized that perhaps it has to do with

where that apostrophe in the word goes. So we just talked to writers assistants who've been

writers in the room and that's s apostrophe as far as I've been able to understand.

And then I've recently hired an assistant to help me with my scheduling, and I also occasionally

bounce creative ideas off her because she's a writer, and she's really smart, and she's a writer's

a writer's apostrophe S, right?

But it's primarily for me, admin, but also some creative.

And then your writer's assistant, which is apostrophe S,

because you are doing creative development work with a showrunner, right?

Yes, that's correct.

That's, yeah, yeah. So in a writer's room, you're an assistant to the writers,

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