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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier.

I am a huge fan of Mindy Kaling. I love the brilliant TV show The Office and she played a huge role

there as a writer, producer, director, and as an actor as Kelly Kapoor. She wanted to create the Mindy

project. The blockbuster never had ever. She started movies like Ocean's 8 in a wrinkle in time.

She's been a voice actor for movies like Inside Out and Despicable Me.

And if that is not enough, she has also written two excellent best-selling memoirs.

Is everyone hanging out without me and other concerns? And why not me?

In 2013, Mindy Kaling was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine,

and the accompanying article included Mindy's Rules for Writing,

which is the voice checklist that hangs in her writer's rooms.

The truth is, she explained, it's much easier to write a bunch of mean singers.

Here are some of my favorite points from that checklist.

Characters are helpful in kind. Characters are polite.

Conflicts should never come from a desire to be cruel or mean.

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