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D. Watkins

How I started writing for TV

Jon Bernthal in "We Own This City" Photograph by Paul Schiraldi/HBO

My first TV script is an episode of the HBO limited series "We Own This City." 

Writing that sentence feels surreal, and not just because I've wanted to write for television since I began my professional career eight years ago. On this project, I got to work alongside, study under and trade jabs with David Simon, creator of my favorite television show and probably yours too, "The Wire." I earned this unbelievable opportunity by doing nothing other than working at my craft daily and by being myself. I didn't fake it. Not even a little.

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