I Wrote 275 Pages in 2 Weeks…By Hand

Here they are — the notebooks. The proof of it all. Top notebook is front-to-back filled with my story. The bottom two notebooks have only parts — I had to find unfinished notebooks to use.

I don’t have the secret to getting massive projects done. I never did, not even when I started the undertaking of writing an entire season of television in two weeks. Truly, though, if there is a secret, I think it’s just gumption. This thing hung over me, and I wanted to make it exist in the real world.

I got the first draft of each episode down on paper. Typing first drafts is not how I roll — I…