ADDICTED TO TV NOW

I've been watching a lot of TV for the last few years, ever since in 2008 I decided I wanted to write for TV in addition to writing novels and adjusted my long-term life plans accordingly.  (I really, really don't want to get a day job again.)  I watched a lot of TV before that, and absorbed a lot of information about how to tell stories in a serialized format, but I wasn't actively analyzing it.  Now that, at least for the period of my contract, I actually am sitting in a real TV writers' room all day, I watch a near-overdose amount of TV.  I also watch things that are on TV, which are not produced for TV; those things are called movies.  I watched Terminator 2 and Inglourious Basterds last night as a break from TV.  I also watched an hour of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and I watched A Gifted Man (Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann are all directing episodic TV now...).  I haven't socialized at all in the last month or two.  (I spend less money now because I never go out; that's good. On the other hand, I just had to pay a brutal life expense that cancelled out most of my show earnings so far.)  I feel a strong, almost painful imperative to become a better TV writer / screenwriter.  I take a lot of notes.