The only script you can really write in life is your own.
This funny, fresh, eye-opening, and inside-Hollywood story will resonate with anyone trying to please their parents, maintain a love life, and find their way in the world--and will inspire countless dreamers to listen to their inner voices and know when it\'s time to get out..
While writing for Friends , Freaks and Geeks , Desperate Housewives and Breaking Bad , Patty steeled herself against the indignities of a chaotic, abusive, male-dominated work culture, not just as one of the few women in the room, but as the only Asian person.
Just a few years later, she was an insider who--through relentless hard work and sacrifice--had earned a seat in the writers\' rooms of the hottest TV shows of all time.
One minute she was a tourist, begging her way into the audience of Late Night with David Letterman .
What if achieving your professional dreams comes at too high a personal cost? That\'s what screenwriter Patty Lin started to ask herself after years in the cutthroat TV industry.
The only script you can really write in life is your own
