Ep. 113: On Being A Staff Writer

Happier in Hollywood

The Onward Project

Careers, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Liz and Sarah break down the experience of being a Staff Writer on a TV show with their former assistant turned TV writer, Brook Sitgraves Turner. Brook’s advice: show up prepared and stay late. In Take A Hike, Liz and Sarah discuss the concept of Swedish Death Cleaning and why we should all accumulate less stuff. Finally, Liz shares yet another Hollywood Hack that will help you achieve “meeting hair:” Dry Bar’s new 25 dollar 20 minute option! Brook Sitgraves Turner — https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8223801/ The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning — https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Art-Swedish-Death-Cleaning/dp/1501173243/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1ZS7B2KMCFXHB&keywords=swedish+death+cleaning+book&qid=1562009398&s=gateway&sprefix=Swedish+Death%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-3 Dry Bar — https://www.thedrybar.com/services/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Do we have a meeting tomorrow?
0:05.4	No, we have nothing.
0:07.2	No meetings.
0:08.2	Free day.
0:09.2	Should we perhaps go to Benny Hanna?
0:12.9	We should.
0:13.9	Hi and welcome to Happier in Hollywood.
0:21.7	The podcast about how to be happier, healthier, sane, or more creative, more successful,
0:25.8	and more productive in a back-fighting superficial chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane
0:31.0	world.
0:32.0	I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and with me is my high school
0:36.6	friend and writing partner of 19 years Liz.
0:39.4	That's me, Liz Kraft.
0:41.2	On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career and friendship
0:46.0	and how to survive the war of a trition that is life in Los Angeles.
0:51.1	This week we talk to Up and Coming TV writer, Brooke Sitgrave's Turner, about her first
0:56.5	experience as a staff writer on The Fix.
0:59.4	What was the best part, what was the worst, and most importantly, what advice does she
1:03.9	have for aspiring Hollywood writers?
1:06.5	Take a hike, we talk about the concept of Swedish death cleaning and why we should all
1:11.2	get rid of our stuff now.
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