{"id":1167,"date":"2000-10-28T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2000-10-28T17:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2015-05-08T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:59:19","slug":"thewbs-interview-with-jason-katims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/10\/thewbs-interview-with-jason-katims\/","title":{"rendered":"TheWB’s Interview With Jason Katims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roswell’s Jason Katims discusses his early years, the upsides of television, and advises aspiring writers.
\nPart 1 of 2.<\/p>\n

Read The Rest Of The Interview here<\/s>.<\/p>\n

Once a struggling playwright, Roswell creator Jason Katims began his television career writing for the highly influential drama, My So-Called Life. In the first entry of this two-part series, Katims talks with The WB about writing, his background, and what the hell baseball has to do with anything.<\/p>\n

Early Years<\/p>\n

“…there’s something freeing about the fact that nobody gives a shit what you write, and nobody cares what you’re writing about. There’s something freeing about that because it allows you to really write in a very pure way.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t forget to email TheWB at faces@thewb.com to let them know what you think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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