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I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

I took a lot of writing courses.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house... It was very refreshing.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.