Darci Interviews TV Writers

Home Town: Mechanicsburg, PA Current Town: Los Angeles, CA What are you working on now?: Currently writing for a Netflix series (it's unannounced so apologies for the vague cagey mysteriousness!) and about to start a copywriting gig. It'll be my first time in the advertising space so very excited/nervous to tack on yet another industry in which I get to experience imposter syndrome! Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: In second grade you got to publish a book (the word "publish" is doing a lot of work there. And also "book"). They were these 10 page-ish hardcover books with an illustration on one side, and on the other side those lined pages with dashes you'd practice cursive on when you first learning. I spent months poring over my story and coming up with this super high-concept snowman factory, JACK FROST meets WESTWORLD, something truly worthy of being forever immortalized in glos...

  Home Town: Brooklyn, NY Current Town: Brooklyn, NY Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: It's really not so much a story, per se, as it is having discovered different types of writers across a variety of media who lit a creative spark in me: There were authors skilled in both whimsy and rhyme like Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein, and sharp-minded comedy writers like those who wrote for "MAD" Magazine. Also in the medium of print, t here were the clever-minded writers of tangible fads like "Garbage Pail Kids" cards and "Wacky Packages" (for you young'uns, the latter were collectable stickers that spoofed branded products... see pic below). In other areas of media, t here were brilliant television writers, like those who wrote whip-smart sketches for "The Electric Company" and "Square One Television." And on the music front, there was one of the greatest song...