So, Liz, I have to confess, I did not work on the pitch deck over the weekend.

That's totally fine. I didn't even consider working on it.

I planned to, but it did not happen.

Hi, and welcome to happierier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,

saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive in a backbiting, superficial,

chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world. I'm Sarah Fane, a TV writer and producer living in

Ohio right outside of L.A. And with me is my high school friend and writing partner Liz.

That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in Hollywood, how we balance a

career and friendship, and how to survive the war of attrition that is life in Los Angeles.

Today we're going to talk about the convergence of all of our projects. It's controlled chaos.

Then and take a hike, we have a challenge for listeners. We are also introducing a brand new

segment today. This week's Hollywood hack is good for the environment and for your budget.

Plus, Liz has a newsletter recommendation. Yes. But first, Sarah, we want to remind everybody

that we're doing the first five on substack. We always talk about how the first five pages of a script

are the most important and that we usually can tell if we want to meet with a writer first five pages of a script are the most important, and that we usually can tell

if we want to meet with a writer within five pages of reading their script. And so we're doing a

thing where you can send in your first five pages and have the chance for us to analyze it

on video over on substack. We're going to pick one first five a month for our yearly

paid subscribers. So we've already started getting pages. So that'll be starting up very soon.

Yeah. So if you want to send pages for the first five, you can email us at happier in Hollywood

at gmail.com. And to subscribe to the substack, just go to our

website, happieronholywood.com, scroll down to the bottom and put in your email address.

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