Do you and Joss have particular writing strengths and weakness that compliment each other?
Well, pathetically for all of us, Joss doesn’t seem to have any weaknesses. We’re still waiting...
I know I sound like incredibly fawning, but it’s all sincere because I have yet to see something he can’t do.
However there are things that I can’t do or don’t have as much interest in doing. Joss goes to a whole different place than I do. Before I got here I mostly wrote plays and movies about suicide and death, despair and ghosts. My background is really in hardcore drama. In fact Joss called me the "suicide girl" for the first year that I was here because all of my projects had a theme of wanting to off yourself.
The episodes you see from me which have that kind of dramatic bent are just because that’s where my writing was when I got here and I’ve had the opportunity to keep going in that direction.
I’d love to do comedy and humour but, for me, it’s not the first instinct. It takes me about three weeks to circle around a joke as you can see from the gum comment I just made. I would have to do like a second and third draft of that joke before I perfected it, whereas Joss is funny on the fly, so there’s that.
