You might have heard, ‘Don’t compare your day 1 to somebody’s day 100’. Even good pieces start looking like crap. Here is me literally comparing the first draft (above) to the middle (the wordy) draft to the final* draft that ended up in the show: The middle draft: The ‘final’ draft: * The final draft…
One of my favorite childhood cartoons is a Soviet classic about a brave little raccoon. The only thing he was scared of was the Thing in the pool. And THE THING was scary: it would wickedly mug and shamelessly threaten the cute baby raccoon! I hated The Thing myself! I remember running up to TV…