Will Friedle
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This is sometime in like the mid 80s.
And they all had lives, the staff.
They had families and they had their job.
And I was this prize winning writer who came in and I had nothing to do.
So they said, OK, go home during the Christmas break and write an outline and come back.
Now, I didn't know that under the rules of the Writers Guild, you get paid in three stages.
You get paid for the outline, which they call the story.
Then you get paid for the first draft and then the second draft.
Nobody had explained this to me.
So they tell me to write the outline.
I'd never written an outline before.
But I figured, how long could it take to write an outline?
So I decided I'll impress them.
I got two weeks off with nothing to do.