A Great Post on Failure, Writing and TV

Warning: For the more sensitive readers, there is language of the less than clean type within.

But this is a great blog post by the guy who wrote the best selling book Sh*t My Dad Says. It's an example of how failure is an important part of any successful person's history. It demonstrates a spirit of gratitude. It gives insight into an industry we all have enjoyed, namely TV. And it's pretty darn funny.

Well worth the read.

Some great passages:

"After eighteen episodes we were pulled off the schedule and cancelled, but it was hard for me to be upset. I had just launched an entire career off a Twitter feed. It’d be like winning the lottery and getting pissed off because they only give you the money in increments of fifty thousand dollars a year."

"Generally, studio executives try incredibly hard to be jovial when addressing writers. They understand that we don’t tend to enjoy their company because spending time with them means we’re going to get “notes,” and notes are like Yankee fans; not all of them are bad, but all of them are annoying."

"TV writers sit around a room seventy hours a week trying to make our friends laugh, have access to more bottled water than entire African countries, and we get paid handsomely for our efforts."