Tell us about your writing background.
My first network job was on a show called Lois and Clark when it was in its last season.
The thing I did to get on that show was write a spec script. You write a sample episode of a show that you like, and try to write it well, so that you show that you can write episodic television.
I wrote a spec episode of The X Files and that got me onto Lois and Clark. Sometime during that year Chris Carter actually contacted me and said "Come and work on The X Files." So after Lois and Clark went off the air I went and worked at The X Files for a year, then after that I worked with a guy named Howard Gordon, who was also on The X Files, but not during the time that I was there.
He started up a show called Strange World which broadcast, I think, three episodes. We made thirteen of them, so if anyone wants to see them you can come to my house, I’ll screen them.
After that there were some offers. Angel was just getting started and David Greenwalt contacted me. We had met before, as I’d worked with John McNamara who had been one of David’s writing partners. They had created a show called Profit together, so David knew me through him and also through Howard Gordon.
When the opportunity came up to work with Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt I leapt at that, in a Crouching Tiger kind of way so it was kind of slow motion.
I've been here since the first year and now we’re going into the third season of Angel. It’s the best place ever to work.
