>> My name is Janice Hirsch.
I am a writer/producer for television primarily.
Primarily sitcoms in television but I have also worked in plays and musicals and screenplays.
I live in Los Angeles and so that's where everything happens for me.
As a writer I always say that I'm like a migrant worker and I go where there are oranges.
So there are years, if I'm working on a sitcom, where it's a season.
It's like a school year.
The sitcom season is usually July through March and then it's going to work every day
and the fun part is you sit in a room full of people and try to make each other laugh.
If they're people who are like you and who you like, it's a pleasure.
When they're people who don't share your sense of humor, it can be a little tough.
So that's the sitcom day.
Right now I've been working freelance because I'm supervising some young writers
on their pilot and working on a couple of plays and a screenplay.
So then I work at home and then it takes discipline because I just basically walk
into another room and try not to make out with the dogs all day long, try to actually write.
But I do tend to write pretty much every day or else feel guilty enough
about not writing one day that I write twice as hard the next.