Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

I watched 'Freaks and Geeks,' and I was like, 'Oh, if you write about your own personal experiences, and if you're specific about it both in what happened and how you felt about it, it can make for scenes that are really compelling.' For the rest of college, I was basically ripping off 'Freaks and Geeks' with plays I wrote and stuff like that.

It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features.

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