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Jane Espenson, the co-creator of Husbands, got her start in television writing for comedies like Dinosaurs and Ellen before writing for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones. She is currently Consulting Producer of ABC's Once Upon a Time.

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Women! This Is Your Fight, Too

(9) Comments | Posted December 13, 2012 | 8:04 PM

"That line, the line about femininity... the thing is, that just isn't true."

Last year a Hollywood professional said that to me about a bit of dialogue in season 1 of Husbands, the online show I created with Brad Bell about a pair of male newlyweds. The line he...

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On Sex and Writing (Not That Kind of Sex)

(18) Comments | Posted March 6, 2012 | 9:48 AM

WHAT DO WE WANT? WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Well, we want there to be more women TV writers. In fact, a good number of you probably want to BE women TV writers. And, now. We would like that now.

Here is my argument for why...

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Being Your Own Best Audience

(8) Comments | Posted January 10, 2012 | 10:35 AM

Happy New Year, Gentle Readers!

Did you have a good holiday season? I certainly did. Over the break, a review of Husbands (watch here) came out in The New Yorker (read here), and I'm still a little buzzy about it.

When people ask me how to write toward...

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Tinkering With an Outline

(18) Comments | Posted December 22, 2011 | 7:29 PM

Greetings, Gentle Readers!

It's the holiday season, and I know that means a lot of you are going to have some long glorious empty days away from work, with piles of new belongings, gradually less exciting turkey sandwiches, and nothing to do but come up with hilarious questions to ask...

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Is TV Writing the Best Job Ever?

(10) Comments | Posted December 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Hello, Gentle Readers. Who's up for a good blogging? I know I am!

I used to blog on my own site, expounding on the art and craft of television writing. But I stopped one day when I realized that I had expounded myself into the ground. There...

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